You don’t come to Lydian
because we have a large team.
You come because somewhere in this team is the exact person who understands your problem.
Directing a fine symphony
Lydian is steered by founder and CEO Loknath ‘Lok’ Rao, an enterprise transformation strategist, supply chain scientist, and SAP practitioner.
Lok helps organisations uncover structural inefficiencies hidden within systems, processes, and data, translating complexity into measurable business value through practical, science-driven solutions.
“Technology should serve business outcomes, not the other way around.”
Loknath Rao
Founder & CEO · BS, MS, CPIM
Principal Solutions Architect — Ops, Supply Chain, Economics
Experience is our most important technology.
Lydian brings together seasoned practitioners across enterprise architecture, optimisation, scheduling, finance, quality, consolidation and governance to solve complex business problems.
DEEP FUNCTIONAL KNOWLEDGE
Across business and technology
REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE
Across business and technology
PRACTICAL, OUTCOME-FOCUSED
Solutions that make a difference
Different disciplines. One way of thinking.
Managing Partner
Dr. Mike Davis
A senior enterprise transformation leader with deep experience across SAP, finance, technology and global operations. He brings a board-level perspective to complex transformation programmes, combining strategic judgement with practical execution.
Enterprise Architect
Abhishek Harshwardhan
An SAP technology, enterprise architecture and cloud transformation specialist with 15+ years’ experience across SAP implementations, S/4HANA transformations, upgrades, migrations and enterprise integrations.
Consolidation Maestro
Rhoderyn Tadeo
A financial consolidation and enterprise reporting specialist working where finance, data and technology meet. She helps complex multi-entity organisations make financial structures, reporting models and systems work as one.
Scheduling Alchemist
Girish Naik
A manufacturing planning and scheduling specialist skilled in Advanced Planning and Scheduling, SAP SCM/APO, PP/DS and production optimisation. He turns complex production constraints into practical planning decisions that improve throughput and capacity utilisation.
Optimisation Guru
Nitin Thatte
Focused on analytical thinking, process improvement and business outcomes, he reflects Lydian’s philosophy of applying planning science, data and practical judgement to uncover opportunities for better decisions, efficiency and enterprise performance.
Quality Whip
Hormazd H. Yazdabadi
He brings a quality-focused perspective to Lydian’s transformation practice, ensuring business processes, systems and deliverables meet the standards dependable execution requires. His role adds discipline, scrutiny and consistency to complex programmes.
PM / EAM / PS
Amudhan Nagraj
He specialises in SAP Project System, Plant Maintenance and Enterprise Asset Management, connecting projects, assets and operational maintenance within a coherent SAP business and technology landscape.
Finance Engineer
Abhijit Bhosale
An SAP Finance and Treasury specialist with 24+ years in finance and enterprise systems, 19 of them in SAP FICO, Treasury and Risk. He links financial processes and technology to strengthen controls, reporting and decisions.
Logistics Virtuoso
Santosh Nagaraj
A logistics, distribution and transportation optimisation expert focused on cost-to-serve, fulfilment performance, freight efficiency and warehouse operations. He shows how logistics strategy can improve both service excellence and profitability.
Margin Architect
Om Prakash Arjuna
With 20+ years’ experience, over 15 in SAP, he specialises in finance, controlling and enterprise performance, including SAP FI/CO, planning and consolidation, connecting financial information to the operational decisions that shape business results.
Risk Navigator
Siva Appala
Siva specialises in the financial systems behind money movement, from SAP Finance and Treasury to cash management, liquidity and banking. He helps organisations see where financial risk sits and where better systems create greater control.
Information Journalist
Vivek Viswanathan
Vivek works between information and understanding, combining SAP data, business intelligence, KPIs and management reporting to make operational information easier to interpret, helping organisations move from “what happened?” to “why, and what next?”
Governance Wizard
Kedar Gadgil
He connects strategy, delivery, stakeholder alignment and execution discipline across complex programmes, bringing a governance and programme-discipline perspective to Lydian’s transformation engagements.
Not sure who you need? Start with the problem.
You don’t need to know exactly what the problem is. Tell us what isn’t working. We’ll help you understand what might be happening.
