About

Nachiket Warhade is a highly effective communicator and a broad-based business leader with over 20 years of leadership experience in a variety of industry settings. He has a strong software engineering foundation and extensive ‘go-to-market’ experience in retail, insurance, and leading Research & Development efforts. Nachiket has international experience in operations and vendor management. His hallmark has been to enable business strategy with technological capabilities while answering to operational and budgetary constraints. He is experienced in building teams and competencies. Nachiket's industry and practical experience includes leading initiatives in omni-channel retailing, social media, and customer centricity as well as financial/ERP system transformations and merchandising and store systems in the retail, finance, and insurance markets. Nachiket's specialties include strategy, governance, and operations, mergers and acquisitions, enterprise architecture - application, information, data, technology, security, SOA, and business, business intelligence & analytics, mobile, social and emerging media expertise, off-shoring, and vendor management (India, China, Brazil), SEO best practices, master data management, trade-show experience, international experience - stakeholder management across cultures and borders, and enterprise shared services. Currently, Nachiket is the Chief Technology Officer at Nothing Bundt Cakes. He has previously worked as the Vice President of Application Development, BI, EA, UX, and PM at Oriental Trading Company, a Berkshire Hathaway company, and as the Head of Enterprise Architecture at The Children's Place. Nachiket has a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Technology from Savitribai Phule Pune University, a Digital Filmmaking certificate from New York Film Academy, and completed his high school education at Sir JJ. His tech stack includes Javascript, React Native, Mobile, ReactJS, Research Scientist, product manager, Frontend, and Typescript. Nachiket has 25.12 years of relevant experience.