Kumar Baliah

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About Kumar Baliah

Kumar is a highly influential senior executive who has successfully undertaken CFO, COO, and CEO roles, collaborating effectively with Boards and executive leadership teams across various regions and complex enterprises to achieve exceptional business results. His experience spans markets in Africa, New Zealand, and the Pacific. Throughout his career, Kumar has led sales, service delivery, and professional services teams to accomplish significant top and bottom-line growth. He possesses extensive industry knowledge and finds his expertise transferable across sectors due to his strong commercial focus. As an accomplished CFO, Kumar has gained substantial experience in the retail, finance, communications, technology, and training industries. His strategic focus as a CFO on developing and executing strategies that enhance bottom line performance propelled his rise to CEO. In this role, he achieved remarkable double-digit growth, effectively more than doubling the company's size. Kumar is a proven leader known for his superior team-building and organizational development skills, with verifiable references available both on this site and verbally. Specialties: Strategic leadership, Cross marketing, Corporate strategy & Business Development, Business troubleshooting, Business startups, Business restructuring and turnaround strategies, Cost reduction, Building and motivating high-performance teams, Business plan development, Mentoring and leveraging human capital, Corporate reviews and strategy development, Corporate governance, Acquisition & Divestment decision support & investigations, Financial assessments & applications, Capital expenditure (CAPEX) assessments, Contract negotiations, Supplier negotiations, Change management, Financial management, Cash flow improvement, Productivity enhancements, Process re-engineering, Global sales, Operations management, Policy development.