Winter Park Professional Women

Umesh Cooduvalli is chairman of the board of Ten Thousand Villages, a pioneer in fair trade, doing business by putting people and planet, first.

Umesh is an accomplished senior executive with a successful track record engaging all aspects of the P&L from market segmentation, identification of opportunity markets, product design and innovation, customer targeting, to business development and sales management. He has deep expertise in developing strategic partnerships, selling enterprise SaaS platforms for retail industry C-level executives, integration to ERP systems, and enterprise-wide rollout of RFID solutions. Umesh is globally versed, is a member of the NACD, ACCD, & PDA.

Umesh is a proven rainmaker who consistently drives profitable revenue in sales and product portfolio of complex technology solutions. Known for outstanding leadership of cross-cultural and cross-functional global teams. His blue-chip global background includes experiences at Whirlpool, Ingersoll-Rand, Dover Corporation, McKinsey & Company, MIT, and the Yale School of Management. He earned an MBA from the University of Notre Dame and has his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering. Umesh is presently the president & CEO of UCR Technologies, a consulting company with a focus on selling inventory management software and branding solutions provider for brand owners and retailers, utilizing innovative technologies to provide the best solutions in design, manufacturing, logistics, and retail.