Avinash Chaudhari is a Consultant with the Engineering and Industrial Services (EIS) business unit at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). With more than 20 years of experience, he has managed strategic EDM and PLM programs for customers across oil and gas, utilities, automotive, aerospace, ship building, retail, and high tech industries. His areas of interest include EDM strategy consulting, design automation, enterprise asset management, and business and IT strategy. Chaudhari has an Executive Postgraduate degree in Management from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore, India; a Masters degree in Production Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai, India; and a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from VJTI, Mumbai, India.