Career
Kachani continues to serve as the director of Master's programs at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University, where he also serves as director of executive education.
Kachani is the Chief Strategy Advisor of the Strategic Capital Allocation Group, a multi-billion dollar investment management firm in Boston. He served on the advisory board of Response Analytics, a Phoenix-based firm focused on helping financial institutions acquire, retain, and expand profitable customer relationships. He also served as Chief Scientist of Vendavo, the leading provider of price management and optimization software for business-to-business companies worldwide. Prior to joining Columbia, he served as a senior consultant in the Boston office of McKinsey. He continues to consult to McKinsey on issues revolving around pricing, supply chain management, operations management and corporate finance.
Kachani is a Senior Editor of the Production Operations Management Journal and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management. He served as the 2006 Vice-Chair and the 2007 Chair of the Revenue Management & Pricing Section of INFORMS, before joining the Board of the Section. In 2008, he was elected by Presidents and Chairs of INFORMS sections and societies to the INFORMS Council.
Kachani serves on Columbia University's Senate –the university's governing body– where he is an elected representative of Columbia's School of Engineering. He is a member of the Senate Executive Committee and the Senate Faculty Affairs Committee, and chairs the Senate Budget Committee.
During graduation ceremonies at Columbia University, Kachani was honored with the Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association 2005 Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award for his dedication to teaching and devotion to mentoring students. He was also honored with the 2007 Columbia Engineering School Kim Award for Faculty Involvement, an award that recognizes one faculty member who goes above and beyond the call of duty to foster student success. He was also awarded the 2010 Janette and Armen Avanessians Diversity Service Award for "Marked Commitment to Diversity, in particular, as a Mentor and Advisor of Women". He is a recipient of the Karl Taylor Compton Prize, the highest award presented by MIT to students in recognition of achievements in citizenship and devotion to the welfare of MIT. He is also a recipient of the MIT Center for Transportation Studies UPS Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, the MIT Robert Guenassia Fellowship and the French Government Fellowship of Academic Excellence.
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