10.24.12
Kline & Company has made some key management changes. It promoted Dilip Chandwani to senior vice president at Kline’s Manufacturing Competitiveness practice, and it also appointed Richard L. Buoni as vice president – chemicals and Jing Yuan as director of Kline’s Management Consulting business.
As an integral part of Kline’s robust reputation, in his 20+ year career with Kline, Chandwani has been a resourceful and dedicated member of Kline’s multi-national team and a critical contributor to the success of Kline’s consulting business. To further strengthen its consulting business, Kline appointed Buoni. In his latest positions as a senior manager at a leading global consultancy and a senior director at a leading global supplier of shrink management solutions, he has been responsible for strategy and operations, and enterprise applications practices focusing on serving clients in the consumer and industrial products industry and the execution of continuous improvement initiatives and delivery of business value across North American supply chain. He has over 20 years experience in consulting industry delivering solutions and leading initiatives across people, strategy, process and technology dimensions in the manufacturing, life sciences, consumer products, process chemicals, energy and aerospace and defense industries.
Reinforcing Kline’s international credentials, reach and expertise, Yuan brings invaluable business development experience accrued in China on behalf of several Fortune 500 companies for their consumer healthcare businesses, in addition to pertinent and prestigious brand and marketing management in the US market. Jing's many consulting accomplishments were undertaken during her tenure with two of the world's largest consulting firms. In roles such as a strategy and business architecture manager and a China strategy group consultant, she was assisting US pharmaceutical businesses enter the European market, and was instrumental for various European and American companies establishing a lucrative foothold in China.