Urvil Modi

Background

About Urvil Modi

Driven by his passion for business and a firm belief in infinite potential of people, Urvil has had a fulfilling journey across diverse industries in manufacturing sector. Over last twenty years, he has built and grown businesses with P&L ownership (a startup as well as within corporations), advised conglomerates on growth strategies and developed & implemented strategic plans within corporations. In his current assignment at Schneider Electric, Urvil is responsible for developing and executing global commercial strategy for Process OEMs for Industrial Automation business. In his previous roles at Schneider Electric, Urvil has been responsible for Industrial Automation P&L for Singapore, Malaysia & Brunei; Electrical & Automation solutions for Food & Beverages segment in India & SAARC; Industrial Automation End User sales team for India and Industrial Automation strategy function for India. Prior to Schneider Electric, Urvil helped build boutique advisory start up, Boston Analytics, which he joined as the first employee and eventually as a CEO, led it to successful exit in seven years. He worked on corporate strategic planning and M&A at Vedanta Resources Plc, financial structuring of infrastructure projects at Larsen & Toubro and B2B product marketing at Foseco India. Urvil received his engineering degree from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur and PGDM (MBA) from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore.