
Sidharth Balakrishna has over 19 years' corporate experience in senior management roles and academic experience of over a decade. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta and an Economics degree from the Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC).
His corporate experience includes the media & entertainment, artificial intelligence, energy, supply chain, renewables and education sectors. He has been an Executive Board Director and Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at one of India's largest conglomerates; and been employed with major oil and gas firms such as Royal Dutch Shell and Management Consultants such as KPMG and Accenture.
He has authored 6 academic books, published by Pearson and SAGE; and numerous articles for the popular press including for the London School of Economics' (LSE), the Economic Times, the Hindu-Business Line etc.
He mentors startups with MIT, Boston, USA as well as MassChallenge Boston, New York, Texas & Tel Aviv, Israel.
He is an Adjunct Faculty at a number of top management institutes including IIM Indore, FMS, SRCC-GBO (teaching Strategy, Economics a d Digital transformation) and has presented papers in over a dozen countries from London to Mozambique. He has also delivered over 170 training sessions for corporate executives.