Malini Balakrishnan Email & Phone Number

Dynamic, transformational technology leader. Specializes in creating and delivering technology-enabled business models. 1st tech leader at the Executive level in three prior roles, at companies that were at critical inflection points in their growth and needed technology to inform, enable and accelerate their business transformations. Each time, built out technology (Engineering and IT) teams & processes from scratch, transforming the function from service provider to competitive differentiator. Draws from strong cross-industry expertise in energy, distribution, and construction to deliver innovative, pragmatic technology-enabled solutions. Change agent sought after to turn around challenged technical organizations, as evidenced by a career of advancement into progressively demanding roles. Creative and energetic, leads from the intersection of people, process and technology. Motivating, articulate and engaging communicator to the Board, executives, and management. Ensures high-performance team delivery through coaching and mentorship.♣Executive Leadership: Full operating, technical, HR and P&L responsibility. Skilled at selling, securing stakeholder alignment, funding and leading multi-year technology initiatives.♣People Management: Passionate about creating an empowering and high performing culture where each individual understands how their work fits into the teams’ charter as well as how that charter aligns with the larger company mission.♣Strong understanding of technology: Responsible for enterprise technology strategy at companies of various sizes in different industries. Leveraging background as trained engineer, provides direction, vision and oversight to technical teams, getting hands-on as needed.♣Cross-functional collaboration: History of building strong strategic partnerships with various internal and external (Board of Directors, key customers, strategic vendors) stake holders. Skilled in using influence vs. control. ♣Distilling complexity: Skilled at translating complex technical concepts into simple, business forward artifacts. Able to tailor style and content to audience.♣Thought Leader and Speaker: Polished speaker and presenter for large audiences of over 700, including BOD members, Sales, Operations and fellow technology leaders.

Listed skills include It Management, Management, Strategy, Erp, and 35 others.