Rajan C. Penkar

Since June 2011, Mr. Penkar has served as the President and founder of Supply Chain Advisory Services, LLC, providing supply chain design and optimization services to retailers. From September 2011 to May 2014, Mr. Penkar served as Senior Vice President and President, Supply Chain for Sears Holding Corporation, an integrated retailer. In this position, Mr. Penkar was accountable for all aspects of the supply chain including global sourcing, distribution and fulfillment, global transportation, inventory management, and inside-the-home delivery and installation of appliances and big-ticket merchandise. Mr. Penkar led the acquisition and implementation of advanced cloud-based routing and scheduling technology for the home delivery operation, significantly improving the customer experience and operational performance. Based on these improvements, Mr. Penkar incubated and launched Innovel, a third-party logistics organization for big ticket home delivery for other retailers. From July 1987 to September 2011, Mr. Penkar held various positions of increasing responsibility with United Parcel Service, Inc. (“UPS”), most recently serving as President, UPS Customer Solutions. In this role, Mr. Penkar and his team engaged with UPS customers across all industries and geographies providing supply chain design and optimization services, and a key point of competitive differentiation for UPS. Mr. Penkar had P&L responsibility for UPS Professional Services, a consulting organization, and two UPS software subsidiaries, ConnectShip and iShip, providing cloud and server-based multi-carrier shipping systems for carrier compliant labels, documentation, electronic manifesting, and data analytics. At UPS, Mr. Penkar was a Senior Executive at UPS Supply Chain Solutions, leading substantial growth through acquisition integration and solutions development, building UPS capabilities in third-party logistics, air and ocean freight forwarding, and service parts logistics. Early in his UPS career, Mr. Penkar was a key contributor to the digitization of UPS services, leading the development of the Delivery Information Acquisition Device for delivery data capture, the two-dimensional MaxiCode for high speed automated sortation, and barcode readers for package tracking and visibility. Previously, Mr. Penkar served as a Senior Member - Technical Staff at Unimation, a robotics company, and Electronic Associates, Inc., a developer of power plant simulators.