Kris Muthukrishnan
Director - IT Project and Process Management
Terra industries Inc.
Kris Muthukrishnan joined Terra industries as Director of Project and Process Management in March 2008. His duties include development and implementation of Project, Change and Risk Management processes in IT at Terra. Kris has over 25 years of leadership experience in Operations, Supply Chain processes, Project Management, Call center and technical support operations, Field Service, Manufacturing and Service startups.
He has held leadership positions at Texas Instruments (1980- 92, 94-97), Hewlett Packard (92-93), Gateway (1997- 2003, 2006- 2008) and Quanta Manufacturing and Service (2003- 2006).
A native of India, Kris earned his BS in Chemical engineering from Indian institute of Technology, Bombay, MS in Chemical Engineering from Cleveland State University, and an MBA and Ph.D. in Business Administration from University of Houston. He has authored or co authored more than a dozen papers and 2 chapters in books in the area of large scale process modeling for energy environmental economics and large scale data modeling.
Kris and his wife Kamali have two daughters and live in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota