About Karthik Chakkarapani

Karthik Chakkarapani is an accomplished Business Technology & Transformation leader with nearly 14 years of experience in strategy, business transformation and architecture, technology leadership and management across many industries.

• Visionary with proven ability to plan, build, align and execute business & technology strategy.
• Strong expertise and experience in transforming business using simple, creative and innovative technologies and solutions.
• Strong experience in creating business value by leveraging new and emerging technologies including Social Enterprise, Enterprise Collaboration, Social Media, Digital, Cloud, SaaS & Mobile.
• Extensive experience in driving business & technology innovation by researching, identifying, prototyping, piloting and implementing the right solutions.
• Strong experience in product strategy, design & management in Cloud, Collaboration, Digital & Mobile applications.
• Cited and quoted in business and technology publications for implementation work with emerging technologies, including the MIT Technology Review, Network World, Information Week and IT Business Edge.

Industry Award – 2011 Computerworld Honors Program Laureate for Enterprise Collaboration & Innovation

Box.Net – BoxStar Customer Hall of the Fame Award for Business Transformation & Document Collaboration

Karthik currently works for Salesforce.com as a Senior Principal Consultant, Strategic Services – Social Enterprise, Collaboration & Cloud. Prior to joining Salesforce.com, Karthik was the IT Director, Technology Solutions & Operations at American Hospital Association where he lead many enterprise initiatives around Social Enterprise, Cloud, Mobile, Cloud & SaaS based technology solutions. Prior to that Karthik was a Principal Consultant at Keane, Senior Consultant at RCN Telecom and Consultant at Telecom Australia.

Karthik also serves as a member on AIIM.org’s Board of Directors, a not for profit association. AIIM is the community that provides education, research, and best practices to help organizations find, control, and optimize their information.

Karthik is a certified PMP, Agile Scrum Master, ITIL Manager (IT Service Management) & Lean Six Sigma Black Belt professional.

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