Adayana, Inc., a global organization performance improvement provider, announces Raymond R. Richie as its new Industry Group President effective immediately.

Raymond Richie became Adayana’s CFO in April 2011 and served as Adayana’s Vice President of Strategic Business Development since 2009. Throughout his career, Raymond Richie has led turnaround and reorganization projects at leading Fortune 500 companies, returning the organizations to profitability. Serving in executive positions, he also managed several entrepreneurial companies where he helped to streamline business operations to strengthen each company.

Highlights of Richie’s contributions while at Adayana, include:

• Spearheading initiatives that created a new business structure as well as an enterprise-wide cost reduction and service mix restructuring program,
• Overhauling the company’s budgeting process, and
• Leading the global M&A process to include post-deal integration across the United States, India, Brazil, and Canada.

"Raymond Richie has demonstrated significant success throughout his career and has made many positive contributions to our organization. He is poised to facilitate future growth and shareholder value at Adayana and I look forward to his strong leadership," said Adayana Chairman and CEO Dr. Rajiv Tandon.

As Adayana Industry Group President, Raymond Richie assumes responsibility of a team composed of Operations and Business Development employees, while continuing to build relationships with over 28 research partnerships worldwide.

Raymond stated, “I look forward to working with the Group, as it is composed of incredibly talented people who are dedicated to helping our Clients grow. Adayana has developed a significant expertise around helping businesses, and the distribution partners they rely on, improve the skills and capabilities necessary to serve end-consumers. This has been an area of recent growth for the Company, I am excited to be a part of such a terrific team.”

The Adayana Industry group helps Fortune 500 companies refine their corporate goals and then develop their employee and their channel partner skillsets enabling our clients to achieve market success. Adayana is honored to work with marquee clients within the Agribusiness, Healthcare, and Automotive sectors.

Richie is an MBA graduate of Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business with an emphasis in Finance, Strategy and Marketing. He and his wife Carrie, and their two sons, live in Indianapolis, Indiana.

About Adayana

Adayana (www.adayana.com) headquartered in Indianapolis Indiana, is a global organizational performance improvement provider that serves clients in the automotive, agribusiness and healthcare sectors as well as the United States federal government. Adayana enables client to accelerate the achievement of their desired results through application of management consulting, learning and development, and performance technologies. The combination of vertical market expertise, innovative application of technology, and client-centric collaboration, enables Adayana to provide services that accelerate client success.