Who are we « Benchmarking Optimizing Business Technology Process Performance by MNI Partners

We are not consultants

We are not change managers. We are not heroes.

We are senior experts in business development, highly practical, open minded individuals who bring to our clients years of experience in a multiplicity of disciplines and business sectors. We are also citizens of the world, from America, from Asia, and from Europe. We can thus bring to bear on our clients problems a uniquely varied and integrated perspective that not only spans national and sectoral boundaries, but bridges the realms of academe and practice as well.

Rajiv Srinath Newton, Massachusetts: Rajiv Srinath is the managing partner of MNI Partners. He has broad experience optimizing and enhancing efficiency and productivity in industries as diverse as apparel and footwear, chemicals, laundry and linen leasing, metals processing, and textiles and conducts seminars worldwide on applying Minimalist principles to operations management. The co-founder of a number of start-ups including two quick response apparel companies, he holds degrees from Lehigh University and Bangalore University in India and has done research at Harvard Business School. His graduate research thesis was awarded an international prize.
Magnus Lutz Freiburg, Germany: Magnus Lutz is a partner in MNI Partners. He has served over 6 years as the Head of Corporate Business Development and Export in Haniel Textile Service, a Division of the Haniel Group. Over 15 years ago he began his career at his family’s third generation Textile Service and Hygiene business and modernized the business for rapid growth. While being an entrepreneur at heart, he is an expert in growth enablement and global market entry strategy. With the experience of over 50 global acquisitions, and is a frequent speaker on mergers and acquisitions at St. Gallen Business School in Switzerland. He has a degree in Business Administration and is a Master Craftsman in Textile-Service.
Manas Fuloria New Delhi, India: Manas Fuloria is a partner in MNI Partners and the chief technology officer for a supply chain optimization company as well as a co-founder of a quick response apparel factory. He has wide experience in the apparel and footwear, pharmaceutical, retail, and textile industries. Also a teacher of seminars, he holds degrees from Stanford and the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi as well as a doctorate and has done research at Harvard Business School. He has won a number of academic awards and honors.
Dominik Lutz Freiburg, Germany: Dominik Lutz is a Partner in MNI Partners and currently drives the European market entry of an US Internet Technology firm as an interim Business Development Director Europe. Prior to joining MNI Partners, Dominik was a manager for the Global Supply Chain of Hofmann-La Roche’s Diagnostics Division. For the strategy and marketing practice of PA Consulting Group, the largest independent strategy and technology consultancy in the UK, he advised companies in the Life Sciences, Telcom and Energy sectors. He also has developed the European business for a Silicon Valley software company with offshore operations in India. Furthermore, Dominik has been associated with his family’s Textile Service and Hygiene business for most of his life, and has broad business experience in this industry. Dominik holds a Master’s degree in International Business from the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Srinivasa R. K Hyderabad, India: Srinivasa R. K. is an advisor to MNI Partners. A modeling and optimization expert, he has more than two decades of industrial experience applying simulation-based distributed optimization techniques and devising simple solutions to real life problems using the latest optimization methods. He has published in a number of international journals and has a doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology.
Rolf Kaiser Nurtingen, Germany: Rolf Kaiser is an associate at MNI Partners. Before joining MNI Partners he has been a consultant for the global textile, garments and fashion industry. As an entrepreneur, Mr. Kaiser owned a textile retail business for more than 15 years and for 11 years he was the CEO of Textil und Bekleidungs AG, a group with more than 6,000 employees worldwide active with 12 single companies. He also served 13 years as a board member of Sütex Stuttgart, a leading purchasing association for the German fashion retail industry. Rolf Kaiser is a commercial judge at the district court of Stuttgart and a frequent guest lecturer on Procurement and distribution at the University of Reutlingen.

How We Came Together

We were brought together in Boston more than ten years ago by Harvard Business School professor Jai Jaikumar. Many of us are former masters and doctoral students, others colleagues and business associates inspired by his vision and enthusiasm. He shared himself with us and trained us in the context of many different projects over a long period. When he passed away several years ago he left the experiences and network he had shared with us, and he left MNI Partners, the worldwide business development company through which we continue to make available our diverse understanding and expertise. We continue today to employ his way of thinking and the many concepts and philosophies our mentor and company founder originated while a professor at Harvard.

Jai’s bio

Ramchandran “Jai” Jaikumar was the Daewoo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. A devoted teacher and enthusiastic, prolific, and rigorous researcher, Jai earned the respect and admiration of colleagues and students alike during sixteen years on the HBS faculty. At various times an advisor to the Office of Technology Assessment and U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Science and Technology, he also served on committees of the National Academy of Engineering, U.S./Japan Manufacturing Research Consortium, National Institute of Technology, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, and National Research Council. A three-time winner of the Franz Edelman Prize for Management Science, Jai was also awarded the Frederick Winslow Taylor Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Grosvenor Plowman Prize by the National Council for Physical Distribution Management. His seminal study of the evolution of process control over five hundred years laid the groundwork for his pathbreaking Minimalist architecture for operations management. An avid climber, Jai passed away in 1998 while ascending a volcano in South America.

Benchmarking Optimization Growth Management Technology Process Performance by MNI Partners

We are not consultants

We are not change managers. We are not heroes.

How We Came Together

Jai’s bio