Karthik Narayan is a Process Automation Consulting Leader focused on Business Process Optimization, RPA/IPA, Business Architecture, IT Business Alignment, Business and IT Transformation. He is an Associate Director at Cognizant IPA Consulting Practice managing the CMT, RCGTH and MLEU portfolio. He has 22 years of work experience in India, NA and Europe geos with large scale consulting transformation initiatives, leading client proposals discussions and leading/recruiting/mentoring high performance teams (team size 80-100).As RPA/IPA leader on advisory capacity, he has been guiding clients on end-to-end lifecycle of process improvements and automation by building business case and roadmap through assessments, identifying problems, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), fit-gap analysis, reimagine future state processes, prioritization of opportunities with estimated business benefits, Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), complexity & feasibility estimation with time-boxing, leading up to implementation of automation projects with a client-centric agile approach.He has proven track record in an executive advisory capacity, by developing the vision and translating them into practical result oriented solutions. He has strong experience as Business Process Automation Advisor and Program Manager with demonstrable ability to deliver business value for major transformation projects across multiple industries (telecom, media, technology, retail) with clients based out of USA, UK, Europe, Canada and India.