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Revathi Advaithi

Chief Executive Officer & Director, FLEX LTD

Search every verified Revathi Advaithi interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Revathi Advaithi, CEO of Flex, recently made campus visits and public speaking appearances. At BITS Pilani, her alma mater, she participated in a walk-and-talk event with other alumni, reflecting on her time as a student 40 years ago and noting that the campus has preserved its history while adding contemporary facilities. During the conversation, she discussed the importance of incorporating AI into education, saying "finding a way to incorporate what that means to people... I think is going to be very important" for future jobs and life. She also advised young people to give themselves room to be "good enough" and to take leaps "even if you're not perfect," while emphasizing that "nothing comes in a shortcut way" and that hard work and self-belief determine one's destiny. At the 2026 Distinguished Leadership Awards, Advaithi delivered a speech introducing Kathy, a colleague and friend, describing her as "ambitious, fearless, direct, but also compassionate, loyal, and incredibly generous." She recounted that Kathy was "one of the longest tenured Fortune 500 CEOs" and praised her ability to be "competitive and compassionate at the same time," noting her habit of asking "So, how are you doing?" during tough conversations. Advaithi also shared that Kathy is "on my personal board of advisors" and "one of the first people I call for advice," calling her achievement "truly one of a kind" and "more than deserved" as a recipient of the honor.

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“Contract manufacturing used to be about labor arbitrage it is now about resilient end-to-end, tariffs play a big role in that, that shifted our customer base into North America and Europe where we make things closer to the end customer.”

“We seeing that 6.6 billion is going to grow 70% this year. And 80% the next. We already publicly disclosed it has very high growth numbers, moving forward for a spinco.”

“I would say that you know there is some data that's promising here right so what I'm hearing and seeing is a lot of gen zers I think that's the gen right I forget all these gens by the way you know want to go into kind of skilled jobs like apprentice jobs skilled worker jobs right and so if we can have public private partnership to really train and retrain America go to into the middle of America, Shaunie, Oklahoma, ”

“I've spent 30 years of my career watching factories move out of America to all parts of the world and today I'm seeing a true rebuilding of factories in America and it is being done in a smart way and in a thoughtful way because you're bringing back manufacturing in hard to do complex integration complex assembly and test.”

“Unfortunately, in the short term, you know, prices have been going up because there is so much power getting consumed. And right now it's it's somewhat of a zero sum game in the sense that you power generation methodologies are not coming up fast enough. Uh, so a lot of people are making do by putting cogeneration systems, solar and alternate energy systems to get things up and running in the interim. But in the larg”

“So the growth in the CPI business uh, last year was around 38%, which was our last fiscal year. We have guided to this year being 65 to 75% and then next year being 80 plus percent. So obviously heavy growth. Yeah. Um, in all the rest of the business right now, we have guided to kind of low to mid-single digit growth in that also in this part of energy infrastructure that's growing fast. Consumer is growing slowly. S”

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