Kumar Baliah

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About Kumar Baliah

Kumar is an impactful senior executive who has operated in CFO, COO (DGM) and CEO roles partnering effectively with the Board, and the executive leadership team, across multiple geographies and complex businesses, to achieve outstanding business performance. He has experience in the African, New Zealand, and Pacific markets. Over his career, Kumar has managed sales teams, service delivery teams, and professional services teams to achieve both top and bottom line growth. Kumar has worked in most industries and finds his knowledge and skills easily transferable within industries, as he is highly commercially focussed. As a high performing CFO, Kumar has had strong experience in the retail, finance, communications, technology, and training industries. His focus as a CFO has been on developing and implementing strategy in organizations that deliver superior bottom line performance, which resulted in his career being progressed to that of a CEO. Kumar is a proven leader who has extremely strong team building and organizational development skills, and his references can be validated both on this site and verbally. Specialities: Strategic leadership, Cross marketing, Corporate strategy & Business Development, Business trouble shooting, Business Startups, Business restructuring and turnaround strategies, Cost cutting, Building and motivating high performing teams, Business plan development, Mentoring and leveraging of 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 improvements, Process re-engineering, Global sales, Operations management, Policy development.