Arjun Balakrishnan Email & Phone Number

Arjun Balakrishnan is a consultant and former MNC executive. He brings close to 15 years of multinational company experience with him. He has served in various sr. executive and leadership capacities at Holm Industries, Scottsburg, Indiana, a division of the Standard Products company (Now Cooper Standard); General Motors (GM), Detroit, USA; General Electric (GE), Bangalore, and Matsushita Electric in India, where he also served on the board. He was the recipient of the Standard Products Chairman’s Award of Excellence in 1994, for excelling in all of the awards criteria of 1. Leadership 2. Innovation 3. Team Spirit 4. Continuous Improvement and Financial Impact. At Matsushita Electric, he was a nominated member of 2 high potential global leadership development programs.Arjun’s credentials include a BE in production Engineering from PSG College of Technology, where his bachelors report was on component inspection using computer aided techniques; MS in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, where his masters report was on global manufacturing strategy (additionally, he also served as a teaching assistant at UT Austin) and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he also served as the co-president of the South Asian Business Association(SABA). A capacity in which he was instrumental in organizing an “Understand India” immersion tour.His unique ‘Systemic Perspectives’ on enterprise and ‘Holistic Philosophy’ are drawn from his experiences in occidental & oriental corporations; multiple industry sector experience; multi-functional exposure; supplier, manufacturing, distribution side of large complex business environments; insights into the dynamics of transition from medium to large scale operations and the ill effects of territorial power struggles and manipulative politics to mention a few.

Listed skills include Strategic Leadership, Strategic Planning, Operations Management, Projects, and 1 others.