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Revathi Advaithi

Chief Executive Officer & Director, Flex

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, announced a $1 million endowment for academically meritorious women students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds during her Convocation 2026 address at BITS Pilani, her alma mater. In the speech, she said that "ready is a lie" and "ready enough is a decision," and urged graduates to question standards of readiness when evaluating candidates for promotion, stating that "compared to whom" should be asked aloud. She also discussed Flex's plan to spin off its cloud and power infrastructure segment into an independent publicly traded company, which she said is expected to grow 70% in the current year and 80% the next, driven by demand from hyperscale data centers and power technology changes. In separate appearances, Advaithi addressed the role of AI in manufacturing and the reshoring of industrial jobs to the United States. She said that contract manufacturing has shifted from being about labor arbitrage to being about resilience, and that tariffs have moved customer bases into North America and Europe. She noted that she has observed a "true rebuilding of factories in America" focused on complex integration and assembly, and argued that AI can improve manufacturing productivity by integrating disparate software systems and making smarter planning decisions.

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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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