Karthik Balachandran
Director - Practice Lead - Wealth & Asset Management | Strategist & Business Architect|GTM Lead | Transformation lead | Asset Development & LKM Lead | Chief Visit Architect|Ex-Capgemini | Ex-Infosys
- Role
- Associate Director at Accenture
- Location
- Bengaluru, KA, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Karthik Balachandran
I am a Capital Markets strategist, leader and business architect with 20+ years of extensive industry experience working for various Capital Markets clients. I work at the intersection of business and technology and help generate client value by reimagining their technology landscape and bring them to bear through compressed transformation initiatives. I am the Asset and Wealth Management Industry Practice Lead for Accenture in India. In addition, I lead the Go To Market and Sales team for Capital Markets Industry; Chief Visit Architect for hosting CXOs; Learning and Knowledge Management lead for Capital Markets clients; Asset development lead; Incubate Centers of Excellence. As the Go To Market (GTM) lead, I run a $100MM+ book of business. I help bring in differentiation through a domain focus to proposals, participate in client orals, suggest technology + industry solutions that help our clients drive their technology initiatives in a compressed way. As the chief visit architect, I host CXO\'s from Fortune 500 firms at the Innovation hub in Bangalore. I help them reimagine their technology landscape through forward looking use cases and bring them to bear by using advanced technology frameworks like GenAI to generate differentiation and thereby business value to their clients. As a Business Architect, I help clients in redefining their enterprise architecture through Accenture\'s Total Enterprise Reinvention and Digital Core frameworkAs the LKM lead, I drive the Industry Academy program for our clients and mentor & nurture employees in their journey to become SME\'s in Capital Markets. I have worked extensively with clients across multiple geographies - North America, Europe and Growth Markets.
Experience
Associate Director
Dec 2022 — Present · Bangalore Urban, IN
Outcome focused - GTM Lead for Cap Mkts driving $100MM+ business- Driving technology transformation for a large North American Bank and Wealth Management firm- Developed and implemented 4 innovative Business Assets in AI, Sustainability spaces- Hosted 300+ client visits since 2018- Incubated Fenergo and Retirement Services COEs- Drive client academies
Education
Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore
BE, Instrumentation Technology
1998 — 2002
SDM Institute for Management Development, Mysore
PGDBA, Management (MBA) - Marketing & Systems
2003 — 2005
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