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McKinsey Alum
Education
BEng: Chemical Engineering Curtin University (Australia)
MBA: INSEAD (France, Singapore)
Background
Jeswant has over 17 years of experience, including 7 years with McKinsey, advising client executive teams and senior management across Australia, Asia, North America and EMEA
He has extensive functional experience in strategy, and commercial topics and has led several performance transformations for small and large enterprises
In his most recent role, Jeswant was Head of Commercial and Business Development at Fortescue, where he helped launch a green hydrogen project and technology business
Jeswant serves as an advisor for two not-for-profit enterprises seeking to improve education outcomes in India
Sample Project Experience
Packaging – Business transformation: Led the operational transformation for the Australia and New Zealand operations for a global packaging manufacturer and reduced recurring operating costs by approximately $10m
Manufacturing – Business transformation: Identified, developed and helped deliver a portfolio of operational improvement initiatives for a manufacturing operation in Australia and improve EBIT by $100m
Performing Arts – Covid-19 mitigation: Helped a major performing arts organization adapt to an expected 70% reduction in audience size due to Covid-19. Worked with the board of directors and leadership team to formulate a mitigation strategy by identifying new revenue sources, expanding customer base, reducing costs and improving fundraising
Chemicals – Business transformation: Led the implementation of an operations excellence program at a leading petrochemical player in the Middle East and helped increase EBITDA by 5%
Energy – Cost reduction: Managed a global cost efficiency program for a large, European, integrated oil company. Helped in-country teams identify, mature and implement opportunities for cost and production efficiency
Mining – Business transformation: Advised a large resources company in Australia on reducing costs and increasing production. Identified opportunities to reduce cost by 20% and increase production by 25%
Public sector – Strategy: Helped develop the cost reduction pathways for a range of low emissions technologies (Green hydrogen, batteries, carbon capture and storage etc) as part of a client project that informed the Australian Governments approach to achieving its Net zero target