Executive Vice President, Sales
Verdantis
Rakesh Raghudharan is Executive Vice President, Sales at Verdantis, where he works with enterprise
organizations across the Middle East to drive adoption of AI-native solutions for MRO, asset
management, and inventory optimization. Based in Dubai, Rakesh partners with C-suite,
maintenance, reliability, procurement, and supply chain leaders across oil and gas, petrochemicals,
manufacturing, and FMCG to address critical MRO challenges including excess inventory, stockouts,
inefficient spare parts planning, and asset downtime.
His work focuses on helping organizations optimize MRO inventory and asset performance through
purpose-trained AI agents that bring together demand forecasting, spare parts criticality, equipment
insights, reorder point optimization, stock velocity, work order planning, and interplant inventory
movements. By connecting these operational decisions to working capital, Rakesh helps
organizations identify opportunities to reduce excess and obsolete inventory, improve inventory
availability, and free up capital tied up in MRO stock while supporting asset reliability and
With extensive experience working with industrial enterprises, Rakesh offers a practitioner’s
perspective on applying AI to real-world MRO and asset management challenges, helping
organizations improve inventory efficiency, maintenance planning, and asset reliability without
disrupting their existing ERP, EAM, or CMMS environments.
