Sonali Kulkarni: Leading the Robo-Charge

Sonali Kulkarni: Leading the Robo-Charge

FANUC India has the potential to make a difference when it comes to reimagining the future of robotics

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Sonali Kulkarni, 57, FANUC IndiaSonali Kulkarni, 57, FANUC India
Prerna Lidhoo
  • Dec 13, 2021,
  • Updated Dec 13, 2021 12:00 PM IST

As Indian companies adopt advanced manufacturing and Industry 4.0 strategies and techniques, Sonali Kulkarni’s role will become even more critical. As President and CEO of FANUC India, a subsidiary of Japanese FANUC Corp. and India’s runaway market leader in industrial robots, Kulkarni oversees sales, marketing and business development for products, including CNC (computer numerical control), robots, robo-machines and system integration. An MBA from Ohio State University, she previously worked as a financial analyst in the US. Clearly, being the great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi is not the only thing that defines her. G.E.T. T.H.A.T.

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As Indian companies adopt advanced manufacturing and Industry 4.0 strategies and techniques, Sonali Kulkarni’s role will become even more critical. As President and CEO of FANUC India, a subsidiary of Japanese FANUC Corp. and India’s runaway market leader in industrial robots, Kulkarni oversees sales, marketing and business development for products, including CNC (computer numerical control), robots, robo-machines and system integration. An MBA from Ohio State University, she previously worked as a financial analyst in the US. Clearly, being the great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi is not the only thing that defines her. G.E.T. T.H.A.T.

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Prerna Lidhoo

Prerna writes on auto, business of entertainment, telecom and a lot of things in between. Having worked as a reporter for over six years, she takes pride in using creative writing, photography and other multimedia tools to tell a story as effectively as possible. She has worked with Hindustan Times, Scroll.in and Fortune India, and her freelance work can be found at The Wire, Huffington Post, DAWN and others. She spends her free time reading about human psychology and watching re-runs of Seinfeld.

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