Karthik Krishnamurthy

About Karthik Krishnamurthy

I have built my career at the intersection of risk, analytics, and technology. Over a 16-year career across consulting, banking, insurance, and healthcare, I have specialized in bridging business needs with technical execution through a systems-thinking mindset.My career has centered on the evolving landscapes of ERM, internal audit, compliance, and third-party risk. Currently, at Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY), I lead enterprise risk analytics programs designed to empower leadership with actionable information. My work focuses on developing scalable analytical solutions augmented by AI to drive strategic risk visibility and shape narratives that improve oversight and assurance effectiveness.Prior to BMS, I advised global financial institutions through Big 4 and boutique consultancies, supporting large-scale regulatory challenges and transformations in credit risk analytics, stress testing, and governance frameworks.I combine emerging technologies with multi-disciplinary experience to modernize business processes, optimizing operations and generating enterprise-wide strategic value.Specialties- Transforming risk intelligence with GenAI, RAG, Agentic Workflows (MCP), OpenSearch, ADK- Architecting UX-focused analytics platforms (Python, React, Docker, Domino, Power BI, Tableau, Streamlit)- Steering ERM strategy and compliance alignment (COSO, IIA, CCAR, FRB, FSB, Basel, NIST AI RMF)- Driving operational excellence through process re-engineering, agile leadership, and automation

Experience

1. Enterprise Risk & Audit Analytics

   Bristol Myers Squibb

   Aug 2021 — Present · Princeton, NJ, US

   Driving AI enablement across risk & audit to accelerate executive decision intelligence. I lead development of AI applications and DataOps, ensuring analytics-led solutions translate into measurable assurance effectiveness.• Audit Analytics Strategy: Reengineering the audit lifecycle via GenAI, architecting pipelines to synthesize unstructured data. Transforming multi-year narratives into dynamic visual intelligence to identify risk patterns and themes, reducing manual analysis while surfacing actionable insights. Launched an Audit Analytics Hub with 45+ workflows under a governed semantic layer to enable cross-functional visibility and seamless access to insights.• ERM & Audit Planning: Facilitated enterprise risk reporting with 20+ coordinators to prioritize 200+ KRIs for leadership consumption. Enhanced report quality through proactive metric drafting and risk narrative alignment. Rebuilt the ERM platform, increasing self-service adoption by 40%. Designed a risk-based model covering 2k+ entities across 24 risk categories, improving high-risk identification by 60% and doubling audit plan generation speed.• Cross-Functional Advisory: Consulted on R&D Finance transformation; blueprinted data modeling and Excel-to-Tableau automation to simplify processes and reduce timelines from weeks to days. For third-party risks, profiled 1k+ suppliers to provide CFO/CPO insights; additionally, recommended KRIs to strengthen oversight of high-risk vendors.• Talent Risk/People Analytics: Created a succession framework with 30+ KPIs to enable risk-informed decision-making. Built ML engines for job similarity and expertise matching, plus a unified platform for event/speaker pipelines, reducing efforts by 80%.• Digital Innovation: Modernizing processes via full-stack solutions, AI prototypes, and re-engineering. Developed Python/React platforms for entity management, standardizing 10k+ entities and reducing reconciliation effort by 70% to establish a single source of truth.

Education

• Annamalai University

  Bachelor of Business Law

  2007

• Indian Institute of Banking and Finance

  Junior Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers (JAIIB)

  2012

• MIB Trieste School of Management

  Master's Degree, Insurance and Risk Management

  2008

Skills

• Six Sigma
• Management Consulting
• Internal Audit
• Management
• Finance
• Business Process Design
• Executive Management
• Bloomberg
• Erp
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Multilingual
• Risk Analysis
• Business Transformation
• Financial Services
• Microsoft Office
• Visio
• Ccar
• Governance
• Financial Risk
• Project Portfolio Management
• Business Impact Analysis
• Building Relationships
• Risk Assessment
• Mis
• Insurance
• Operational Risk
• Strategic Financial Planning
• Business Analysis
• Regulation Change Management
• Risk Management
• Financial Planning
• Business Process Re-Engineering
• Model Risk Management
• Business Process Mapping
• Aris
• Analytics
• Alm
• Business Continuity Planning