Karthik Krishnamurthy

Background

About Karthik Krishnamurthy

Finance executive with over 20 years of experience across PE Operations, business transformation, finance and general management. Key achievements include: Finance and G&A Transformation: Established a finance, accounting and payroll shared services center in India with over 300 specialists and a global operational reporting team leading to savings of >$9m and improved operating model. VP of Transformation executing on savings of $200m over 24 months at Pitney Bowes (6 towers with ~45 projects); Business Transformation: Built and led execution for a $45m profit improvement plan for a $450m business unit. Carve out and sale of a division followed by operational initiatives leading to $22m of EBITDA improvement in 24 months for a PE owned portfolio company. Savings of ~$10m and an operating plan to profitability for a business unit with significant growth. Executed on the sale of businesses in 7 countries, leading to fixed cost reductions of $6m and moving to a variable cost model in these countries; Regional & global business unit CFO: Accomplishments include improving the profitability by over 30% for APAC services business including pricing and establishing business models and structures to enable growth. Helped drive consolidation of global R&D facilities and accounting teams as divisional CFO; Global experience: Worked in India, the US and Singapore with responsibilities for specific countries, regional and global teams. This has helped me understand the different cultures and what it takes to deliver results across cross functional and cross cultural teams; People leadership and building best in class teams: Extensive experience recruiting, managing and coaching regional and global teams that have delivered results.