Vikram Mansharamani
Chief Executive Officer @ Goodwell Foods
About
mansharamani.substack.com Vikram Mansharamani is a global trend-watcher who shows people how to anticipate the future, manage risk, and spot opportunities. He is an academic, advisor, and author as well as a frequently sought-after speaker who discusses navigating uncertainty. Dr. Mansharamani adopts a uniquely global approach to his work, having worked on every continent other than Antarctica (it’s on his to-do list). He is a regular commentator on issues driving disruption in the global business environment. His ideas and writings have also appeared in a long list of publications and he’s been honored by LinkedIn as their one of their Top Voices and Worth magazine as one of the 100 Most Powerful People in Global Finance. As an advisor, Dr. Mansharamani assists numerous boards and c-suites analyze the business impact of global trends, with an emphasis on economic, political, and social risks that might generate instability. His thematic analysis is always focused on identifying opportunities within the risks. He currently serves on the Board of Werner Enterprises (Nasdaq: WERN) and is a member of the Audit, Nominating and Governance, and ESG committees. Since 2009, he has taught classes on financial instability, economic inequality, governance and business ethics, and systems thinking to both undergraduate and graduate students at Yale and Harvard universities. Dr. Mansharamani is the author of Think For Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence (HBR Press, 2020) and Boombustology: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst (Wiley, 2011, 2019). In 2022, Dr. Mansharamani was a candidate for the US Senate in New Hampshire and earned praise for running an ideas-driven, solutions-oriented campaign. He has a PhD and two Masters degrees from MIT and a Bachelors degree from Yale University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Vikram lives in Lincoln, NH with his wife, daughter, son, golden-retriever, and two cats, one of which he believes may be clairvoyant.
United States
Lincoln
Food Production
Non-Executive Director, Board Level, Investments, Valuation, Hedge Funds, Portfolio Management, Emerging Markets, Private Equity, Financial Modeling, Business Development, Business Strategy, Investment Banking, Equities, Venture Capital, Public Speaking, Financial Markets, Asset Allocation, Capital Markets, Entrepreneurship, Mutual Funds
Experience
Chief Executive Officer
Goodwell Foods
New Hampshire, United States
Founded and run a manufacturer of single serve private label frozen pizza.
Founder & President
Kelan Advisors, LLC
Provide strategic advice to corporate boardrooms and c-suites. Help senior teams navigate uncertainty and make complex decisions by generating scenarios, questioning assumptions, and conducting pre-mortem analyses. Clients include aerospace, defense, space, construction, materials, IT, agriculture, and energy companies.
Board Member
NH Business Finance Authority
Board Member
Phantom Space
Visiting Fellow
Portfolio Construction Forum
Board Member
Werner Enterprises
Lecturer
Harvard University
Greater Boston Area
Designed and taught "Humanity & Its Challenges: System Thinking Approaches" to Harvard University undergraduate and graduate students. The course integrated technical, social, economic, political, and ethical perspectives to help students learn how to navigate uncertainty and address borderless, dynamic, and complex problems.
Board Member
Africa Opportunity Fund
Lecturer
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Designed and taught "Financial Booms & Busts" and "Adventures in Business Ethics" to Yale University undergraduate and graduate students. Also designed and taught "Economic Inequality" at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. All three courses utilized a multi-disciplinary approach to helping students understand complex problems.
Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government
Harvard Kennedy School
Cambridge, MA
Conducted research on decision-making approaches of generalists and specialists, with a specific focus on the ability to navigate uncertainty.
Education
MIT Sloan School of Management
Management
THESIS: "Scale and Differentiation in Services: Using Information Technologies to Manage Customer Experiences at Harrah's Entertainment and Other Companies"
MIT Sloan School of Management
THESIS: "Towards a Theory of Service Innovation: An Inductive Case Study Approach to Evaluating the Uniqueness of Services"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Political Science (Security Studies)
THESIS: "The Deepwater Program: A Case Study in Organizational Transformation Inspired by the Parallel Interaction of Internal and External Core Groups"
Yale University
East Asian Studies, Ethics Politics & Economics
Distinction in both majors, Elected to Phi Beta Kappa
Blair Academy
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