Krishna Kulkarni

Krishna (Kris) Kulkarni is currently the Vice President of Global Innovation and Product Engineering at Schlam. Prior to joining Schlam, Kris held the position of Vice President of Global Mining Machinery and Vice Chairman of the Board - Mining Business at LiuGong Machinery. Before that, he had various roles at Caterpillar Inc., such as Head of Engineering for Hydraulic Mining Shovels, Engineering Manager for various divisions, and Engineering Supervisor for structural analysis. Kris holds a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from Northwestern University, an M.A.Sc. in Structural Engineering from the University of Ottawa, and a B.Tech. in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.