Masato KobayashiChief Operating Officer

Masato Kobayashi

Chief Operating Officer Japan · Global perspective

Turning enterprise ambition into dependable execution.

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Appointments & responsibility

  1. 2020 — Present01

    Chief Operating Officer

    Aldermoor Group

    Scope & contribution

    Leading enterprise operating performance, delivery reliability and capacity decisions. Connecting commercial commitments with the processes, resources and accountabilities required to fulfil them.

  2. 2016 — 202002

    Vice President, Operations

    Fairhaven Holdings

    Scope & contribution

    Managed operating teams through process redesign and service improvement. Built an end-to-end view of quality, productivity and customer outcomes across functional boundaries.

  3. 2012 — 201703

    Vice President, Supply Chain

    Harrow & Vale Industries

    Scope & contribution

    Redesigned a fragmented supply network into three regional hubs, improving service and resilience at once.

  4. 2006 — 201204

    Plant Director

    Calder Logistics

    Scope & contribution

    Ran the group's largest site and learned that operating discipline begins with the people closest to the work.

On-time delivery
97.6%
Up from 81% across the network
Cost removed
₹1,150 Cr
Without reducing service quality
Sites run
64
Plants, warehouses and service centres
Safety incidents
−48%
Over three operating years

At the board table

Harrow & Vale Industries

Independent Director

Operations & Safety (Chair) · Risk

The Manufacturing Skills Council

Advisory Board Member

Workforce Development

Operations should make dependable delivery repeatable. I make ownership and constraints visible, listen to frontline evidence and improve the whole workflow rather than optimise one function at another's expense.

The leadership record

Trusted with consequential decisions.

Recognition

  • Operations Leader of the YearThe Operations Excellence Awards · 2024
  • Supply Chain Resilience AwardCapital & Governance Quarterly · 2022

In conversation

  • “From 81% to 97% on-time without a single new plant”The Operations Excellence Journal · 2025
  • “What boards should see in an operations review”The Boardroom Review · 2024
  • “Episode 109 — Keeping the promise to customers”The Leadership Ledger podcast · 2023

Formation

  • B.E., Industrial EngineeringNational Institute of Technology · 1999
  • MBA, Strategy & FinanceWestbrook School of Management · 2004
  • Lean Six Sigma Master Black BeltThe Operational Excellence Institute · 2011
Turns ambition into an operating system people can actually run.
Lars EriksenChief Executive, Harrow & Vale Industries
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