Material Plus Holdings, LLC (Material), an intelligent growth company providing AI-driven consumer insights, growth strategy, product design and digital platform engineering, is pleased to welcome Ranjan Kalia as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Kalia's appointment comes as Material continues to scale its global capabilities, helping clients harness the power of data and AI to deliver demand-centric growth.
Material appoints Ranjan Kalia as CFO; a three-time CFO with more than 30 years of experience.
Previously CFO at Brillio, Orion Innovation, and Virtusa Corporation (scaled Virtusa from ~100Mto1.2B in revenue).
Held senior finance roles at EMC Corporation, General Electric Company, PepsiCo, Inc., and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Material is part of the Blackstone portfolio with 50-year history of helping clients build customer intelligence into brands.
Material works with world-class companies across insights-driven strategy, product design, customer engagement, and digital platform engineering.
Subsidiary Aruliden helps cultural icons extend personal brands into new product lines.
Laila Worrell, Material's CEO, stated, “Ranjan's leadership as CFO will play a pivotal role in our next phase of growth, as we invest to deliver even greater innovation and value for our clients. He brings a global, results-oriented mindset and a strong track record scaling tech-enabled services businesses. He will be a tremendous partner in executing Material's strategy and creating exceptional outcomes for our clients.”
Kalia commented, “Material sits at a powerful intersection of customer data, behavioral and decision science, product design and platform engineering. Material is in a category-of-one in bringing these differentiated capabilities together to drive growth for clients. I am energized by the company's momentum, the caliber of its people and its longstanding client relationships with the world's most influential companies. The opportunity ahead is significant, and I look forward to helping Material continue to capture it.”
Ranjan Kalia joins Material with more than 30 years of experience leading finance organizations across global businesses. Most recently, Kalia was CFO at Brillio, and before that at Orion Innovation and Virtusa Corporation, where he was a central figure in scaling Virtusa's business from roughly 100millionto1.2 billion in revenue. Earlier in his career, Kalia held senior finance and operational leadership roles at EMC Corporation, General Electric Company, PepsiCo, Inc., and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, building a foundation in global finance, audit and operations.
Material Plus Holdings, LLC is an intelligent growth company that is part of the Blackstone portfolio. Material has a 50-year history of helping clients build customer intelligence into brands, experiences, and digital platforms that compete and win. Material works with world-class companies to drive demand-centric growth through integrated capabilities including insights-driven strategy, product design and innovation, customer engagement, and digital platform engineering. In addition to serving the corporate market, through its subsidiary, Aruliden, Material has helped some of the world's most celebrated cultural icons extend their personal brands into new product lines.
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