Arjun Bedi

CEO

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States36 yrs 6 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led Accenture's strategic direction for 35 years.
  • Founded the annual Health & Life Sciences CEO Forum.
  • Expert in healthcare, technology, and business transformation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic leader in healthcare and technology sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business StrategyP&l Management

Other Skills

AnalyticsBoard of DirectorsBusiness AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentBusiness PlanningBusiness Process ImprovementBusiness TransformationCRMCompetitive AnalysisConsumer ProductsCross-functional Team LeadershipFinancial ModelingIT StrategyLeadershipManagement

About

Arjun is a transformative business leader with a distinguished 35-year career at Accenture, where he served on the Global Management Committee and reported directly to the CEO, playing a pivotal role in shaping the firm’s strategic direction. He held multiple senior leadership positions, including Senior Managing Director and Chairman of the Strategic (Diamond) Client Leadership Council, overseeing a portfolio of more than 300 clients that represent 62% of Accenture’s global revenues. Under his leadership, the client base and revenues nearly doubled over six years. Arjun was especially influential in the Health, Life Sciences, and Biotech sectors, leading major client relationships and spearheading large-scale transformation initiatives. He is recognized for designing and executing major technology-enabled transformations for some of Accenture’s most prominent clients. A signature achievement of his industry leadership is the founding and ongoing facilitation—now in its 15th year—of the prestigious annual Health & Life Sciences CEO Forum. This exclusive gathering brings together CEOs from the top 20 Healthcare companies to foster collaboration and address industry opportunities, challenges, and the transformative impact of AI. Currently, Arjun serves as a strategic advisor to CEOs and sits on several commercial boards. He is widely respected for his expertise at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and business, and remains a sought-after advisor for CEOs and boards, driving thought leadership and industry transformation across Health & Life Sciences and the broader technology sector. Arjun is also deeply committed to social impact. He has a strong passion for advancing inclusion and diversity, promoting health equity, and creating opportunities for disadvantaged children. In addition to his commercial board roles, Arjun serves on the board of HealthRight International, an innovative NGO dedicated to expanding global health equity.

Experience

Accenture

8 roles

Senior Strategic Advisor

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Senior Managing Director

Promoted

Mar 2018Sep 2024 · 6 yrs 6 mos

  • Chairman, Diamond Client Leadership Council and Member of Global Management Committee
  • Since March 2018, Arjun has been Chairman of Accenture’s Diamond Client Leadership Council, our portfolio of Top 300+ global strategic clients, responsible for a significant part of our firms revenues. Reporting directly to our CEO, and working closely with our Global Management Committee, his focus is to develop and execute strategies to build a resilient portfolio of strategic clients that delivers high impact to clients along with sustained accretive profitable revenue growth for the firm.
  • Arjun was named to Accenture’s Global Management Committee (GMC) in March 2020, the global governance body, led by Accenture’s CEO, responsible for development and execution of Accenture’s strategy.
P&L ManagementBusiness StrategyStrategy ExecutionBusiness TransformationBoard of Directors

Senior Managing Director

Dec 2016Sep 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Life Sciences Client Portfolio Lead - Lead P&L accountability for significant segment of our Life Sciences business.

Senior Managing Director

Promoted

Jun 2016Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Growth Strategy & Execution Lead for Products (NA).
  • Responsible for developing and executing Growth Strategy for our Products business in North America. Products includes Life Sciences, Consumer Products, Industrial, Travel and Retail industry groups and is the largest Operating Group within Accenture.

Managing Director

Sep 2012Sep 2016 · 4 yrs

  • Managing Partner - Life Sciences High Growth Portfolio (Biotech Sector) Lead

Managing Partner

Promoted

Aug 2006Aug 2012 · 6 yrs

  • Global lead - Life Sciences R&D

Executive Partner

Promoted

Sep 2000Aug 2006 · 5 yrs 11 mos

Analyst - Partner

Aug 1989Aug 2000 · 11 yrs

Education

Harvard Business School

Certified Board Director Program

Nov 2024Nov 2026

Harvard Business School

Certificate Program: Preparing to be a Corporate Director

Oct 2024Oct 2024

Temple University

Master of Business Administration - MBA — MIS

Jan 1985Jan 1987

Delhi University

BA Hons — Economics

Jan 1981Jan 1984

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