Director of Supply Management and Optimization at Tesla, Sameer Kshiragar, is a key member of Tesla's team. Many automotive and high-tech commodities and worldwide suppliers are within Mr. Kshirsagar's strategic sourcing and industrialization responsibilities. To be successful in today's disruptive, competitive, and fast-paced world, he must lay a solid basis for the continually expanding supply base he manages. ​ Throughout his career, Sameer Kshirsagar has held executive positions in the automobile, consumer electronics, and high-tech sectors. From General Motors, Philips Electronics, Google[X], Uber, and Tesla, he has worked at some of the world's most recognizable firms. In addition to strategic sourcing, supply chain management, lean manufacturing and quality assurance as well as supplier industrialization and engineering, he has extensive experience in strategic finance, workplace operations, and lean manufacturing. ​ In the past, Sameer Kshirsagar was a board member of Uber-Advanced Technologies Group. He won the Chairman's Honors Award from General Motors in 1999, and the Young Manufacturing Leadership Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers (S.A.E.) in 2008. From Virginia Tech through Kettering University to Ohio State University, he has three degrees in mechanical engineering, one in manufacturing management, and one in executive management. Aside from earning credentials in supply chain management from the University of Texas at Austin and Stanford University, Mr. Kshirsagar also holds a degree in improving the effectiveness of corporate boards from Harvard University. ​ It's a pleasure for Sameer Kshirsagar to lend a hand with the charitable work of his relatives. He's now looking to make a bigger impact on the neighborhood. Mr. Kshirsagar has a particular interest in working with non-profit groups that focus on improving educational opportunities for underprivileged children, children in need, and military veterans. Mr. Kshirsagar and his family, which includes his wife of 20 years, their two children, and their two dogs, presently reside in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.