Chethan Kt
Enterprise Strategy, Innovation and AI Lead | GBS India Lead |Scaling GCC| Advisory Board Member |IIMB & IIMC | Academia & Hackathon Evangelist | Start up Mentor
- Role
- Enterprise Strategy, Innovation & Ai Lead at Bayer
- Location
- Bengaluru, KA, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Chethan Kt
Enterprise AI Strategy and Implementing Agenti AI solutions. Lead Bayer as India GBS Lead for Data analytics & BI across Crop Science, Consumer Health and Pharma.With 19 years + of experience building, scaling, and governing enterprise capabilities for multinational organizations across Pharma, Healthcare, CPG, BFSI, Manufacturing, and Automotive sectors.Proven track record in capability setup, leadership hiring, operating model design, governance, and large-scale talent development within Global Capability Centers and Global Business Services environments.Beyond corporate roles, I contribute to the ecosystem as- Advisory Board Member – Global Academy of Technology -Speaker across industry & academia - Mentor within GCC and startup ecosystems Currently responsible for enterprise-critical capabilities within a Fortune-scale Global Digital Hub, partnering with global CXOs to strengthen India hub maturity, predictability, and long-term enterprise value.Recipient of the GCC Impact Leadership Award (2025). Alumnus of IIM Bangalore (GCC Leadership) and IIM Calcutta, with strong focus on India capability strategy, governance, and sustainable scale.
Experience
Enterprise Strategy, Innovation & Ai Lead
May 2025 — Present
Leading enterprise-scale AI-enabled capabilities as part of Bayer’s Global Digital Hub, with accountability for delivery governance, talent scale, and stakeholder alignment across Pharma, Consumer Health, and Crop Science- Lead enterprise-scale digital, analytics, and agentic AI-enabled capabilities supporting Pharma, Consumer Health, and Crop Science- Partner with global CXOs and senior leaders to expand India GCC ownership across high-impact business and platform initiatives- Built and scaled 200+ member capability cohorts, strengthening leadership depth and execution maturity- Contribute to enterprise data governance and SAP → S/4HANA transformation programs- Actively involved in leadership hiring, technical panels, internship programs, and talent evaluation- Position AI and automation as enterprise productivity and capability enablers, not standalone innovation.
Education
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Leadership Development Programme to Build Resilient GCCs (Executive Education, IIMB)
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Science and Technology
2001 — 2005
Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
EXEC PGP From Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Managing Business Decisions -Startergy. Marketing . operations . financial & Business analytics.
2014 — 2015
Skills
- Autosys
- Sql
- Quality Center
- Exponential Smoothing
- Lean IT
- Moving Averages
- Business Intelligence
- Customer Analytics
- Sdlc
- Sap Pa - Predictive Analytics
- Qualitative & Quantitative Research Methodologies
- Etl Tools
- Business Forecasting
- Manual Testing
- Hypothesis Testing
- R
- Db2
- Business Analytics
- Spss
- Process Improvement
- Unix
- Performance Improvement
- Full Sdlc
- Requirements Analysis
- Conjoint Analysis
- Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
- R Programming
- Business Environment
- Statistical Data Analysis
- Regression Analysis
- Requirements Gathering
- Tableau
- Time Series Analysis
- Finance and Accounting Principles
- Phstat
- Informatica
- Cluster Analysis
- Hp Quality Center
- Ibm Mainframe
- Histograms
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