Tolu Akindunni is a Venture Accelerator and Social Entrepreneur with 20 years of experience driving transformative change across complex global business environments. Her expertise spans digital transformation, emerging technologies, and strategic innovation, with a career spanning four continents. Tolu has held pioneering roles with global brands such as Saint-Gobain, Emirates Airlines, and the Rail Delivery Group (UK), fostering growth, agility, and customer-centric excellence.

Currently, Tolu is a key member of Saint-Gobain’s Central Innovation Team, where she reshapes the innovation landscape by driving capability building and strategic initiatives that accelerate revenue growth. As a trusted business partner, she is committed to cultivating a resilient culture and leveraging innovative business and service models to fuel success.

The Pop in Your Job (What moves you? Why do you love your job?)

What excites me most about my job is the opportunity to be at the forefront of pioneering transformation on an industrial scale. At Saint-Gobain, I’m deeply involved in shaping initiatives that will revolutionize markets for years to come, and I’m able to see these strategies deliver tangible results. I enjoy connecting the dots across different business units, influencing culture, and driving sustainable growth.

The dynamic nature of my role keeps me energized—I might be solving a problem in the U.S. one minute, and addressing a new challenge in Europe the next. I work alongside incredibly intelligent and experienced professionals, from PhDs to seasoned business leaders, ensuring there’s never a dull moment.

Beyond the business side, I’m driven by the chance to empower underrepresented communities. Helping them unlock opportunities with the right systems and structures is where the real pop in my work comes from, as it brings together multiple aspects of my career to serve the community.

Vignesh has 14+ years of Global Experience in executing multiple engagements. Specialized on unearthing implicit needs, detailed requirement gathering, solution design and development of complex Automotive Infotainment and Telematics system

Vignesh's key strength lies in organized approach, an eye for detail, articulating client implicit needs, chalking out win strategies and quick learner.

An engineer from University of Madras, completed his Executive MBA from IIM, Bangalore and certified on corporate accounting, Finance and Biz Laws from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), Bangalore. He has received several recognition and awards at work and Academics.

Greg Tracey is a sales leader with extensive experience in the SaaS industry, specializing in solutions for the manufacturing and distribution sectors. As the VP of Sales at AMDT, Greg leads the Americas team, focusing on delivering advanced OT solutions through octoplant, a leading platform designed to enhance resilience in industrial automation environments. His expertise covers OT security, data protection, and manufacturing resilience, helping organizations optimize their digital infrastructure while ensuring both operational safety and compliance. Greg is passionate about the intersection of technology and security, with a strong emphasis on delivering solutions that not only protect but also drive operational efficiency.

Tim is a principal and the Smart Manufacturing Business Leader with Deloitte Consulting LLP. He brings more than 25 years of supply chain experience with a focus on value chain optimization using emerging technology. He has led multiple supply chain transformations, spanning supply chain strategy, manufacturing optimization, supply chain planning, inventory optimization, operating model design, and operational excellence for domestic and multinational corporations. He has been hands on creating the “Factory of the Future” for his clients using IoT, converging the IT/OT space, and harnessing edge to cloud to drive real-time insights. Tim previously led Deloitte’s US Supply Chain Retail and Consumer Product practice.

Prior to joining Deloitte, Tim grew up in the manufacturing space including programming industrial controls for high-speed manufacturing, leading large scale engineering programs, and running 24/7 operations for a production facility with over 50 production lines. He earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester and his MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

My focus is to reduce Human Struggle in Operations and Maintenance - which applies to all systems whether they be physical operations, software development, information processing, or somewhere in between. The outcome is improved margins, reduced risk, higher retention and morale - but most important is the transformation of the organization into a more agile and responsive system. I work with your company's talent to address the 'stubborn' problems holding your organization back from its full potential.

Most recent value creation projects -
- Working with Fortune 50 F&B company, have currently reduced operational changeovers in five of their LATAM facilities by over 40%, and the efficiency of two factory maintenance changeovers by over 30%, while laying the groundwork for the company's digital transformation. Half were conducted 'live on-line' using direct video feeds for plant gemba walks.

- DIrected Heineken and Valiot in identifying 1 million cases of beer per month of 'hidden capacity' via diagnosis of weaknesses in their digital capabilities (https://news.mit.edu/2021/unleashing-capacity-heineken-mexico-with-systems-thinking-from-mit-0607)

- Co-launched very popular Organizational Risk & Resiliency course for Sloan Executive Education, with Prof. Retsef Levi, DIrector of MIT Operations Research Center. Unique approach based on the Sloan School's deep experience in System Dynamics and Organizational Behavior, as well as drawing from Industry 4.0 tech advances.
(https://executive.mit.edu/course/building-organizational-resilience/a056g00000URaadAAD.html)

- co-developed MIT Sloan's integrated COVID testing operations for Sloan School, capable of safely processing several thousand students and faculty sessions per week with minimal wait timesh