Dheev Arulmani is co-founder & COO of Valdera, the AI platform transforming chemical and raw material procurement. An MIT chemical engineer, Dheev brings deep expertise in chemicals and manufacturing. Starting from the electrochemistry lab and moving to McKinsey, he saw the same problem across the chemicals sector: a $5 trillion industry still running on spreadsheets, tribal knowledge, and manual workflows. Dheev co-founded Valdera with his sister Sruti Arulmani to change that. Today, direct procurement teams have one agentic system to understand their market and act on it.