Dewi NairChief Operating Officer

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Dewi Nair

Chief Operating Officer Singapore / Southeast Asia · Global perspective

Turning enterprise ambition into dependable execution.

I help organisations deliver on the promises they make to customers. My work connects operating design, frontline capability and performance discipline so that growth can be supported by a dependable business.

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.

Dewi Nair

Open to Board appointments · Advisory roles · Speaking invitations

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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

A record of service

2020 — Present
Chief Operating OfficerAldermoor Group
2016 — 2020
Vice President, OperationsFairhaven Holdings
2012 — 2017
Vice President, Supply ChainHarrow & Vale Industries
2006 — 2012
Plant DirectorCalder Logistics
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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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An invitation

The most consequential work begins with a conversation.

For board, advisory and leadership conversations where operating model design matters.

  • Board appointments
  • Advisory roles
  • Speaking invitations

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