Ronak Bhatt

Member, Board of Directors

Principal Advisor, RIN Advisors

Ronak is a Principal with RIN Advisors , a management consulting firm that provides strategy and operations improvement services to help organizations create more value for their owners and stakeholders through profitable growth, adaptation to changing market conditions, and capture of new opportunities. He advises companies on a range of strategic issues including new business development, product commercialization, innovation, sales & marketing, and partnerships/M&A. He works with companies from $50M to $10B in a variety of industries including manufacturing, energy, private equity, chemicals, and packaging.

Prior to RIN Advisors, Ronak spent 6 years at McKinsey & Company, where he led consulting and client teams at Fortune 500 companies deal with their most pressing strategic challenges. Ronak also worked as a scientist at Beam Power Technology, a startup commercializing particle accelerator technologies he developed as a graduate student for applications in telecommunications and radar.

In his spare time, Ronak teaches courses in business and energy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he is a part-time Associate Professor in the Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC). He received an Energy Leadership Award from the Charlotte Business Journal, earned his doctorate in physics from MIT, and his B.S. in physics at Caltech.