Ameet Bodhankar

Ameet Bodhankar currently serves as Chief Operations Officer at P.W. Gillibrand Co., Inc. since January 2023. Previously, Ameet held the position of Vice President and General Manager of Sales and Operations for Lhoist in the Western US and Canada from July 2016 to 2022, where responsibilities included full P&L management across multiple manufacturing sites and significant sales growth. Ameet's earlier roles at Lhoist included General Manager and Plant Manager, with achievements such as successfully revitalizing a bay area plant, leading to a 200% increase in profitability, and executing strategies for 20% business growth. Ameet’s career also includes significant positions at Ecolab Inc. as Engineering Manager, where several major projects were managed, and various engineering and management roles at Hindustan Unilever Ltd and IndoRama Synthetics. Ameet's educational background includes an MBA from Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst and advanced degrees in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University and LIT Nagpur, along with business education from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.