Experts & Advisors
Karthik Chandrasekar
Senior Managing Director
Karthik Chandrasekar serves as Global Head of Digital at Ankura, providing strategic leadership and shaping frontier strategies for clients. Over the course of a 25‑year career, he has advised numerous Fortune 100 companies and private equity firms across the domains of technology, data, and innovation. This extensive experience, combined with Ankura’s multidisciplinary capabilities, uniquely equips him to architect and lead accelerated, transformative, and disruptive digital endeavors.
Experience
Karthik has extensive expertise in business strategy, operational excellence, commercial differentiation, and digital transformation to deliver enterprise growth. His approach to value creation is grounded in rigorous analysis of macroeconomic trends, industry dynamics, technological innovation, and organizational readiness. He draws upon deep cross-industry and cross-market experiences to translate strategic insights into actionable direction, identify emerging and unmet needs, and advise senior leaders on high-stake decisions.
The outcomes of his work have advanced organizations by transforming product‑centric operations into service‑led growth models, enhancing deal strategies through sophisticated negotiation approaches, eliminating friction across end‑user experience journeys, unlocking operational synergies trapped within the value chain, and repositioning the businesses to compete effectively within a multi‑sided economic ecosystem.
Karthik is a lifelong learner who unites academic insight with extensive practical experience. Above all, he champions and cultivates diverse perspectives that challenge the status quo and inspire forward‑looking concepts.
- Education
- MBA, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, IL
- Executive Program, Disruptive Strategies, Harvard Business School, MA
- BS, Information System, Drexel University, PA
