• Lead, manage, and monitor multiple engagement teams comprising of 40+ Managers, Senior, and Staff Consultants including offshore resources. Apprise clients and EY executive management timely of resource turnover and transitions. Provide timely formal and informal feedback to team members on performance and seek open and honest upward feedback.• Manage a book of business over $2M and 9000 hours, which has grown 30% in the past 2 years. • Built a strong sales and growth pipeline in excess of $18M. Liaise with EY Leadership to identify sales opportunities and lead client proposals. Develop the strategy, facilitate internal sessions, and present at client orals.• Develop engagement objectives and strategy through discussions with the client and EY leadership. Manage expectations of service, timing, deliverables, and seek periodic feedback from the client to exceed client expectations. • Enrich client relationships and develop trust with key stakeholders. Viewed as a trusted business advisor by clients who seek out and request expertise. Identify additional growth opportunities for cross service line integration.• Present practical and cost-effective recommendations to senior management and stakeholders. Provide insights to CXOs to implement agreed upon recommendations.• Liaise with EY leadership to increase firm’s operational efficiency, enhance teaming, and promote firm’s business strategy. • Coach and mentor Staff and Senior Consultants in developing and achieving career goals and objectives for performance and professional development. Act as a diversity mentor for 3 Senior Consultants.• Recipient of 9 awards for recognition of outstanding contributions and efforts.• Assist with recruiting efforts i.e. campus presentations, case studies, candidate interviews, and new hire onboarding.

Ernst & Young is a multinational professional services firm and a global leader in assurance (including financial audit), tax, and transactions and advisory services and is one of the "Big Four"​ accounting firms. As a Senior Consultant, Karan:• Planned, documented, and led execution of projects to budget. Interviewed client executives and key stakeholders for current state analysis of IT and business processes. Detail reviewed team’s analysis and documentation on IT governance and compliance projects, future state analysis, and system implementation reviews. Drafted reports or final deliverables for the work performed; presented issues and recommendations to the key stakeholders, as needed.• Identified additional opportunities for cross-service line integration and assisted EY leadership in pursuit, which led to 10% increase in revenue. • Demonstrated strong project management skills by utilizing available resources while managing the team’s workload to effectively achieve engagement goals and objectives. Trained, and mentored Staff Consultants and Interns as part of on-the-job coaching. Provided timely feedback to the team on their performance. • Developed revenue and operating model with EY Leadership for EY Vision 2020. Recommended organic and inorganic growth strategies to achieve planned market penetration and long-term revenue goals.• Recipient of 11 awards for recognition of outstanding contributions and efforts and for achievements that go significantly “above and beyond” expectations.• Assisted with recruiting efforts and onboarding of new hires as needed.

Grant Thornton LLP is the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International, a global accounting, tax, and business advisory services organization. Founded in 1924, Grant Thornton LLP is one of the largest accounting organizations outside of the Big 4. The member firms of Grant Thornton International serve clients in more than 100 countries worldwide. Grant Thornton is the fifth largest CPA firm in the US with global revenue in excess of $4.8B, as of 2016. As an Experienced Associate, Karan:• Performed gap assessments by understanding client’s IT and business processes, and control environment, through interviews and walkthroughs with process owners, subject matter experts, and executives. Gathered and analyzed data, and provided management with gap analysis that led to sales of additional work. • Executed projects including planning and documentation while managing to budget.• Led small engagement teams, monitored workload while meeting client expectations, provided candid feedback in a timely manner, and kept leadership informed of progress and issues.• Performed competitor analysis and market research to compare firm’s service offerings to assist leadership with business development activities; assisted management on multiple sales calls and proposals.• Mentored Associates and Interns and provided guidance on-the-job, as needed.

Stone Source is an importer, distributor and fabricator of natural stone products and ceramic tiles. The company deals in natural stone, porcelain tile, ceramic tile, glass tile, engineered stone, reclaimed and old growth wood and other materials. Headquartered at New York, Stone Source has state-of-the-art warehouses and six attractive showrooms in major US cities. As a financial analyst intern, Karan assisted the EVP - Finance and Administration (CFO) as under:• Consolidated financial reports, prepared financial statements and built extensive financial models based on trial balance reports and business plans• Analyzed sales and procurement trends and generate reports using MS Access and Excel• Forecast changes in sales and budgets using price-volume analysis

Karan served as a Business Strategy intern at Verizon Communications, a global broadband and telecommunications company. At Verizon, the Small-to-Medium Business portal team offered innovative solutions and services for business expansion for small business units. The team employs the SaaS model (Software as a Service) and provides unmatched customized service to small and medium businesses through its application website. The website follows the agile, scrum and modified scrum methodologies of software development for faster application rollouts to cater to business needs. Karan assisted in the go-to-market strategy and business analysis of such all such services. Karan's performed the following: • Facilitated requirements gathering meetings with one or more Subject Matter Experts• Analyzed client requirements to create functional specifications for business and technical team • Increased revenue for the team by $1M through IT advisory and consultation• Reduced client expense by $500,000 by cost-benefit and data analysis and project reprioritization• Improved client’s marketing business model using strategic IT and business functions• Assisted accounts manager on financial planning and budgeting for the IT team Karan was a member on the closing celebrations committee and the volunteer committee at Dallas. He represented Verizon at the New York ALPFA Summit at Manhattan.

Karan worked for TCS Financial Solutions, a strategic business unit at TATA Consultancy Services dedicated to providing business application solutions to the banking, insurance and capital markets industries. At TCS-FS, the projects which Karan had directed or served catered to design and implementation of core-banking solutions for retail financial services and commercial banks worldwide. Karan’s contribution to remodeling the registration, recording, tracking and reimbursement of trade bills from concept to launch, in the “Trade Finance and Bill Discounting” module may be regarded as one of his most successful accomplishments. This is currently being sold packaged with TCS BaNCS, which emerged as the worldwide leader for core banking solutions for large banks in Celent ABCD analysis. Karan has gained immense knowledge of best practices in IT industry, and operations at TCS, a Level 5 CMMI company. Karan has shown a thorough understanding of the role of strategic IT in businesses through comprehensive analysis of varied business models for his clients. As a Consultant, Karan has:• Advised C-level executives on design of product features and strategy to expand business in untapped market segments and managed a team of five for the execution of implementation strategy• Assisted financial consultants and business analysts in requirement gathering and gap analysis by performing walkthroughs of business processes and interviews of key client personnel• Designed reports for C-level executives to assess performance of financial products and improvised strategies used for daily operations• Redesigned control checks within IT environment to combat operational risk• Assisted management on sales demonstrations and presentations• Appointed as Virtual Quality Facilitator to undertake project planning and resource management• Mentored and trained peers for product development and to design effective controls for risk mitigation

Pangea3 provides legal process outsourcing (LPO) services. It is one of the leading legal KPO and legal BPO providers in India and offers world-class quality contract management and abstraction, contract drafting and revision, risk management, legal research and competitive intelligence, electronic discovery and document review, and patent prosecution, patent litigation, patent analytics and patent drafting services to U.S., U.K., and Japanese corporations and their law firms.Karan provided engineering consulting services in relation to a complex patent related litigation in the United States. He was assigned quality control for the project on account of superior performance and eye for detail.