About
The work shows up in your numbers.
Ruh Industries is an executive advisory practice judged the way you are judged: cash you can see coming, margin you keep, working capital you free up, and a close that lands on time. Most growing companies do not have a strategy problem. They have an execution gap, and it costs them money every month it stays open.
How we work
Two ways, depending on what the problem needs. In a seat, we work the way an internal executive does: inside your systems, in your meetings, close to your numbers, standing up the forecast, overseeing the close, renegotiating the contract, and then teaching your team to run it without us. On a project, the scope is defined and so is the end: we find the answer, show the workings so your team can challenge them, and stay to implement only if that is what you want.
Who we work with
Companies in industrial and consumer goods, in travel, hospitality, and live events, and in technology and services, at every stage of maturity, from pre-revenue through established and private-equity-owned. Some are standing up a finance and operations function for the first time. Others have one that has not kept pace with the business, are working through an integration or a value-creation plan, or need experienced coverage for a defined stretch without adding a permanent executive seat.
Who You Are Working With
Ben Ruh
Founder and Lead Principal, Ruh Industries LLC
Ben Ruh is a finance and operations executive who has worked across both industry and consulting, building the financial and operational infrastructure that growing companies need and rarely have. He has held roles at Deloitte Consulting LLP, Nike, W. L. Gore & Associates, and NMG Aerospace.
Alongside those roles he has served as a consultant to client organizations working against deadlines that do not move. For the Olympics he held a senior finance and operations executive role across a twenty-two month engagement, reporting to the client CFO and owning spend strategy and negotiations across marketing, infrastructure, and corporate budgets for a build spanning venues across the region. For a World Cup host operation he owned budget allocation and contracting, leading a team of six and reporting directly to the client CFO.
For more than a year he led AI strategy for a vertical of Deloitte Consulting’s Supply Chain and Network Operations practice, directing enterprise AI use-case assessment and prioritization, quantifying the business cases, and defining the operating model, data foundation, and governance required to take AI past pilot. He has also led post-acquisition integrations, scoping and capturing $30M to $45M in identified synergy value.
That is the through line. Budgetary allocation, cash flow management, and sourcing awards are financial decisions that happen to sit in an operations org: inventory impacts working capital, contract terms impact cash flow, and category strategy impacts margin. Work of this kind has also produced double-digit category savings and enterprise system transformations on common platforms.
Ruh Industries exists because the clients we have worked with who most need this kind of leadership and strategy are typically the clients who cannot yet justify the budget and hiring for full-time coverage.
Figures on this page describe the scope and results of specific prior engagements under the conditions present at the time. They are not a projection or an assurance of results in any other engagement.
- FocusFractional and full-time CFO, COO, and Chief Supply Chain Officer leadership
- ExperienceExecutive experience in finance, operations, and supply chain, across industry and consulting
- PreviouslyDeloitte Consulting LLP · Nike · W. L. Gore & Associates · NMG Aerospace
- Sector experienceManufacturing & industrials · Retail & consumer · Airlines & travel · Hotels & hospitality · Sports & entertainment · Technology · Energy & utilities
- EducationB.S., Supply Chain Management, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
- TeachingGuest Lecturer, Supply Management (SCM 345 and 355), Arizona State University
- SystemsSAP S/4HANA · SAP ECC · Coupa · SAP Ariba · ServiceNow · ZIP · IBM Maximo
- Based inPhoenix, Arizona and New York, New York. Working remotely and on-site
- ConnectLinkedIn · ben@ruhindustries.com
