S D Saravana Gughan with more than 2 decades of prolific experience in verticals like Food Services, QSR and Food Retail, has built up his Business sinews in the areas of Operations, Sourcing, Supply Chain Management, New Product Development, Quality Assurance, Merchandizing, Business Development, Strategy, Integration and P&L of SBU. He has involved in establishing businesses in India, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Europe and North America Region.
A Bachelor of Agriculture and Master of Agricultural Economics from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India followed by Post Graduate in Business Administration Certificate Course form XLRI, Jamshedpur, India, he started his career with Kasturi & Sons, a Chennai (Tamil Nadu, India) based Fresh Produce Retail Company where he has over seen produce procurement and merchandizing operation. A couple of years later, he has joined McDonald’s India Sub-Continent Development Company (wholly owned by McDonald's Corporation, USA) as Agricultural Specialist in their Supply Chain Team and he was one among four such employees across McDonald's global system.
As S D Saravana Gughan is well known in the QSR, Food Service and Food Retail industry he participates in national/international events/conferences/conclaves as speaker, moderator, panellist etc.Gughan is also a visiting professor in WE School of Business Management, Mumbai