Lunch and Learn with Manish Kapoor, Founder & CEO of GCG Companies, Ex-Amazon, Ex-FedEx | Ops Club x Entrepreneurship Club

Please join the Ops Club and Entrepreneurship Club in welcoming Manish Kapoor, one of the leading industry experts for eCommerce supply chain & logistics! Manish will be discussing his experience in industry, his journey in starting his own venture, and lessons he learned along the way. Lunch will be provided!

Bio:
Manish is accredited with launching several operational programs worldwide for Amazon and FedEx. He is now on a mission to help young eCommerce companies scale up and traditional businesses implement omni-channel supply chains.

Manish Kapoor is the Founder & CEO of the Growth Catalyst Group of Companies, an umbrella corporation that includes Advatix (operations consulting), XPDEL (3PL), and Archway (marketing services). 

He founded Advatix after 25 years of senior leadership roles at various organizations including Amazon, FedEx and Deluxe. Manish has a career track record of leading industry transformations. He formed Advatix to provide the real “boots on the ground” help by seasoned eCommerce Operators and Strategists to unlock growth for its clients. Under Manish’s guidance, Advantix, under the GCG umbrella, continues to change the growth trajectory of many companies including Rent The Runway, Care Of, goPuff, The Black Tux, Oh My Green, Leixir, and TForce. Advatix is also collaborating with companies such as General Motors and Google on eCommerce innovation and Last Mile automation.

Previously at Amazon, Manish was the first person hired for the newly formed group “Amazon Logistics – AMZL” with the mission to build Amazon’s own logistics capabilities. Manish led Last Mile efforts worldwide including the US launch of Amazon’s first delivery station, Amazon Fresh, and 2-Day Delivery. Earlier at FedEx, even before smart phones were mainstream, Manish helped create the first centralized command and control center with driver apps and automated route optimization for Last Mile in the US. Manish led several programs related to Omni-Channel fulfillment and launched FedEx SameDay City, a high-speed local courier service with money back guarantee.

As Manish says, “The number of companies that need help with eCommerce and Omni-Channel operations is growing every day. Advatix is like going back to my roots since I come from a family of four generations of entrepreneurs. I have been training for this for 25 years.” Manish got his Engineering from Pune University in India, a Master of Science from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, and MBA from Babson in Massachusetts. Manish also has Supply Chain Strategy and Management Certification from M.I.T. and a LEAN/6-Sigma certification from The University of Texas.

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