Kaarthik Hariharan

Founder

Thiruvananthapuram, India19 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founder and CEO of Basement's Kitchen Pvt Ltd
  • Over 16 years of cross-domain IT experience
  • Expert in Program Management and Business Development
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Smart City and Innovation Management expert with extensive experience in project and business development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Program ManagementProject ManagementBusiness DevelopmentMarket ResearchInnovation ManagementBusiness AnalysisGovernance And Compliance

Other Skills

Vendor ManagementTeam ManagementCustomer RelationshipCompliance AnalysisCorporate TrainingMachine LearningEnergy ManagementWater ManagementData AnalysisResearch and InnovationClient EngagementRequirement ElicitationCustomer Relationship ManagementSolutioningRisk Assessment

About

Kaarthik Hariharan is the Founder and CEO of Basement's Kitchen Private Limited, a Food and beverages company aimed at providing highest quality food for end Customers. The Company had its genesis 11 years ago as an idea which took all these years to manifest itself. Innovation, User Centric Design and sustainability are at the core of Basement's Kitchen. Kaarthik Hariharan is also seasoned IT Professional with over 16 years of cross domain experience. A highly motivated, a fast learner and an excellent team player, Kaarthik can work effectively in fast paced, multitasking environments; possess good prioritization skills with a systematic approach to work and ability to handle pressure and deadlines. Proven abilities include Program Management, Business Development, Innovation Management & Strategy, Customer Relationship and Advisory roles

Experience

The basement's kitchen

Founder

May 2023Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Ust

3 roles

Project Director Smart City

Promoted

Oct 2019Oct 2023 · 4 yrs

  • Directly Manage the Smart City Project implementation; accomplish project objectives by planning and evaluating project activities.Actively leading a team of 30 associates; coordinate, communicate and integrate project deliverables.Entirely accountable for the overall success of the project ensuring critical alignment with customers and vendors.Manage a portfolio of vendors and cross functional team consisting of IoT, Intelligent Traffic Management, ATCS, Smart City Command & Control centre, Citizen portal, Mobility and collaboration platforms.
Project ManagementVendor ManagementTeam ManagementCustomer RelationshipProgram Management

Manager- Business Development & Strategy - Global Public Sector at UST Global

Nov 2018Oct 2019 · 11 mos

  • Insights and Analysis of New Growth Markets is very important to enhance the value offering of Business. The current role provides an exciting opportunity of conducting Market Research for newer Business geographies, analyzing the Compliance requirements, curating business opportunities and enabling the closure of new Business Leads, in line with the Global Public Sector Strategy. Actively pursuing and curating deals in Middle East, Australia and Europe in the Government & Public Sector space.
Market ResearchBusiness DevelopmentCompliance Analysis

Presales, Market Research & Strategy - Global Public Sector

Nov 2017Oct 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

Tata consultancy services

10 roles

Innovation Evangelist - North America, Canada & LATAM

Jun 2017Oct 2017 · 4 mos

  • The demand for innovation is at an all time high with Customers looking to leverage cross industry experience to enrich their businesses.As an Innovation Evangelist for Americas, I am deeply involved in listening to the customer, analyzing their problems and actively scouting for solution with the Research Community in TCS and our external ecosystems to provide an overarching strategy for their problem statements.
  • In this role, I am responsible to help strategize a unique Corporate Training program to drive Innovation Awareness within the organization.
Innovation ManagementCorporate Training

Innovation Evangelist - Cyberphysical System & Intelligent Infrastructure

Apr 2016May 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • The whole of the world is looking at a smarter way of living. Intelligent Infrastructures are turning mundane buildings into a powerhouse of data which can be efficiently used in multiple ways. I am passionate about energy saving and this role presents an opportunity to explore how industries such as Retail, Travel, Hospitality, Manufacturing and Energy Resources can actively look at increasing their overall efficiency .
  • This research group focuses on Water Management using Machine Learning Algorithm and Sparse Sensor network to manage Non Revenue Water (NRW) losses. As the industry facing person for this unit, I have been actively involved in providing solutions to a large Water Utility in the United Kingdom.
  • As part of this group, our Solution on Wind Energy, which uses a Level-2 algorithm to more efficiently predict wind energy generation has been well appreciated by Energy companies in Europe.
  • Our solution to Benchmark Energy consumption of buildings has been widely accepted as a novel method of understanding the energy efficiency of buildings. As the lead evangelists, successfully enabled piloting the solution in 6 TCS offices with positive results. Actively involved in evangelizing the solution in Middle East and Africa as well.
  • A major success of my effort has been the first ever recognition TCS won for our in house Remote Energy Management Solution from the global IoT Evolution Magazine in 2016.
Machine LearningEnergy ManagementInnovation Management

Innovation Evangelist - Travel, Transport and Hospitality

Jan 2015Mar 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • As the Lead Innovation Evangelist for TTH ISU, my role focuses on ensuring a seamless connect between the Unit Business and the respective labs in the areas of research and innovation relevant to Business. It also requires engaging with the Client Partners, Innovation Heads to facilitate Customer visits and help schedule events surrounding the theme of innovation. It also involves creation of assets like Thought Leadership Papers, White Papers and Case Studies.
  • Successfully led a research PoC for one of the leading Postal Customers in Nordics which had a great impact for the overall Postal Industry.

Business Analyst

Promoted

Sep 2014Oct 2014 · 1 mo

  • As a Business Analyst for Standard Bank of South Africa, handled the Wealth Management Portfolio for the bank. Responsibilities include Requirement elicitation, finalization, authoring BRD, perform testing and finalize formal sign off from the Business Users.
Research and InnovationClient EngagementInnovation Management

Business Development Manager

Nov 2013Aug 2014 · 9 mos

  • The role primarily focuses on generating Annuity business for the company through Pipe Line Management and Customer Relationship Management. Additionally, I am also involved in Solutioning, RFP Response, Client Presentation, Vendor Management and Negotiations. The geographical focus area is Queensland - Australia.
Requirement ElicitationBusiness Analysis

Consultant - Governance, Risk & Compliance - Government Industry Solution Unit

Oct 2011Oct 2013 · 2 yrs

  • The role includes Assessing Risk, Penalties and desigining of Project Implementation Plan and preparation of RFP response. In addition, involved in pre-bid engagement with the prospect to assess their current IT set up and suggest ways of improving them.
Customer Relationship ManagementSolutioningBusiness Development

Project Manager - iPad & Tools Develeopment Teams

Apr 2011Oct 2011 · 6 mos

  • As the Project manager, I was responsible for ensuring migration of application from Open Source to iOS platform. The iPad application developed was for the top management of our client to enable them to monitor the project live from anywhere and also present the results in an interactive and graphical manner.
Risk AssessmentProject Implementation PlanningGovernance and Compliance

Project Manager

Promoted

Apr 2010Mar 2011 · 11 mos

  • As a part of the Project Management team, I handled the creation of a Change Management Process and Communication Management Process for the project team. I was also responsible for preparing the MIS reports for the Project Management and Client's management teams. The highlight of the project was the highly successful roll out of a workflow based Change Management Tool, completely developed in house. I also shared the additional responsibility of Project Scheduling and Release Management during the project period.
Project ManagementApplication Development

Research Analyst

Jan 2009Jan 2010 · 1 yr

  • As a Research Analyst, I was part of a team where we prepared the Market Intelligence and Competitor Intelligence report for our top management and sales teams. Being a part of the BFSI research team, I have had rich experience in Secondary research using tools like Factiva and also analysing industry standard reports such as Gartner, Forrester, IDC and Celent.
  • The major requirement of the role is to provide factual data on any Prospective clients identified from the public domain and preparation of Prospect Profiles.

Assistant Systems Engineer

Mar 2006Aug 2010 · 4 yrs 5 mos

Change ManagementCommunication ManagementProject Management

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Executive Postgraduate Program — Strategic Management

Jan 2021Jan 2022

Anna University Chennai

BE — Electronics and Communication

Jan 2001Jan 2005

Dolphin Public School

Jan 1991Jan 2001

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