Inteligistics names two new VPs

Pittsburgh-based Inteligistics has promoted a pair of company veterans to leadership roles.

Lawrence Mallia will serve as vice president of digital transformation, and Eric Kithinji will be vice president of operations and engineering, according to a news release.

“Lawrence and Eric have been instrumental to our success developing systems and helping leading companies such as Driscoll’s, Fresh Del Monte, Dole and Church Brothers improve their supply chain visibility and efficiency,” Inteligistics CEO and Chairman Rao Mandava said in the release. “Their leadership and elevated roles will help Inteligistics expand our supply chain solutions to reduce waste, increase sales and comply with customer and regulatory requirements for food safety, traceability and sustainability. Our ongoing focus to bring value to perishables supply chains include retailers and food service companies.”

Since graduating the University of California Santa Cruz in 2011, Mallia has been focused on customer development, support, integration and implementation of information management and process control systems, according to the release. He joined Inteligistics in 2019 as a project engineer and was promoted to project manager in 2020.

“From growers’ fields to retailers’ last mile stores, we’re helping the companies that feed the world to make their processes efficient, reduce waste, save expense, and capture lost revenue by adopting advanced technology applications,” Mallia said in the release.

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Kithinji joined Inteligistics in 2011 as lead engineer after a master’s degree in engineering from Minnesota State University. He has been chief engineer for operations since February 2021. In addition to being the architect for much of the Inteligistics ecosystem of supply chain solutions, Kithinji is also the company’s lead customer-facing solutions expert.

“Experience on-site with our customers has helped us combine off-the-shelf technology with artificial intelligence and machine learning to create practical and cost-effective solutions to a variety of supply chain issues,” Kithinji said in the release.

“Lawrence and Eric combine strong technical capabilities with a thorough understanding of perishable supply chain operations and a focus on delivering value to our clients,” Mandava said in the release. “They helped develop our ground-breaking Inteligistics InteliView integrated digital platform and ROI (Revenue Optimization from Inteligistics) shelf-life predictability model, and I’m excited to announce their new roles.”

The company focuses on using technology and process improvements to bring digital transformation and adding value to perishable supply chains.