Biography

Rakesh Mani is a Partner at PwC and leads the firm’s Consumer Markets practice across Asia Pacific – advising leading retailers, consumer goods companies and diversified conglomerates on growth strategy, commercial excellence and large-scale cost transformation. Based in Kuala Lumpur, he brings a career spanning PwC’s United States, Japan and Southeast Asia practices – a breadth of markets that informs his work across the region’s diverse and fast-evolving consumer landscape. His client base spans corporate leaders and global private equity, and he has advised governments on policy design and program execution for topics related to agriculture and food security. Rakesh is a regular contributor to regional thought leadership and is an occasional speaker at industry executive forums such as the National Retail Federation (NRF) and the Retail Asia summit. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management as a BS from New York University.