Atul Chitale

Atul is passionate about the dairy industry. He comes from a family that has revolutionized the milk production and processing in the State of Maharashtra, India. He has completed BS in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University and Master’s in Dairy Products Technology from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California. Industrial Engineering has given him a broad knowledge of Operations Research, Manufacturing Systems, Human Factors, Industrial Automation, and Computing. Whereas specialized masters education has exposed him to various tenets of dairy industry such as Unit Operations, Microbiology, Chemistry, Quality Control and Assurance, Manufacturing, Ingredient Functionality, Plant Management and Problem-Solving.

As part of the Master’s program, he has completed a graduate internship with Tetra Pak. During the internship, his main task was to act as a link between process and automation solutions. After the internship, Atul joined Tetra Pak as an Automation Engineer. He worked on writing functional specifications and other automation engineering tasks for large scale evaporation and spray drying projects based in continental United States. After working for Tetra Pak for about 3 years, Atul joined family dairy business Chitale Dairy in Bhilwadi, India. He is utilizing his solid Industrial Engineering background and Dairy Technology outlook to enhance Chitale product portfolio and further grow the business.