Suhas Kakde, CEO and President, and is the majority
owner of USAeroteam, a manufacturer of
Aircraft Engine components & USAF Ground Support
Equip. since 1985.
Prior
to 1985, he had worked for 10 years with south western
Ohio companies ranging in size from small to Fortune 500,
as a Design Engineer, Manager, Director, and Vice President
of Technology and Strategy. He applied numerous initiatives
which saved significant costs for GE Aircraft Engine,
General Motors & the United States Air Force.
It was upon the United States Air Force's and United States
Small Business Administration's initiative that USAeroteam
was honored in Washington DC in May of 1995 and the flag
of United States was flown over the United States Capitol
in Suhas Kakde's honor on April 12, 1995 for being named
among the top ten small prime business contractors in
the nation for quality, leadership, technology and delivery
to the United States Government.
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> BS
Mechanical Engineering, MS Product Design (IIT Bombay,
India), MBA Finance and Marketing, University of
Cincinnati. Declined Guggenheim Doctoral Fellowship
at MIT Boston to be an entrepreneur.
> Commercial, Instrument,
Multi-Engine Pilot since 1977.
> Addressed
500 managers, engineers and administrators of General
Electric on "Winning Corporate Culture and
Diversity" September 1994.
> Founding Trustee of National
Center for Industrial Competitiveness (under Defense
Conversion initiative of Federal Govt.). And Technology
evaluator for several venture capital firms.
> Contributing Professional
Photographer for the UNESCO project, "Problems
of the City of Bombay" (1971).
> Hosted
"Project Christmas Smiles/Toys for Tots"
for over 20 years, over a million needy children
from 7 counties around have received their Christmas toys.
> Co-chaired a ‘World Business
Conference for Indians’ in Jerusalem, in 1994. Other two
Co-chairmen - Defense Minister and the speaker of the
parliament of India.
> Founded
and later spun off Infoglobe Inc, a 350 people software service
company operating in San Jose, CA; London, UK; Dayton, OH
and Bangalore, India (1996-2002).
Continue to be the LEANEST U S Aerospace
company and create 1,000 new careers with
half of them for the Native Americans and
Indians by 2020.
To always provide
innovative, efficient and quality products
and services to our Customers.
Delivered
Zero PPM, well under Six Sigma.
Scored 100 out of 100 on
customer’s audits and AS 9100 audits
