Saurabh Shekhar is a Principal at Kearney, a global management consulting company with
~15 years of experience across multiple sectors such as Manufacturing, Construction,
Industrial and Commercial Machinery and Equipment, and Oil and Gas. He has spent 8
years in industry across Energy sector (Oil & Gas) and E-commerce and 6+ years with
consulting across Energy and Process Industries, Advanced Manufacturing, Construction,
Industrial Services, Telecom, and Aviation across multiple topics (Strategy & Growth,
Operating models, Cost Management, Organization Transformation, and Customer
experience)
During his tenure, he has served several key Ministries in the region in shaping the national
agenda for construction sector. His expertise in construction sector has enabled him to
support national strategies for building materials and investment plans, policies, and
regulations including supporting entities in setting up JVs, bringing FDI’s >$500mn, setting
up large-scale manufacturing/assembly plants among others.
In last few years, he has developed and activated the National Industrial Strategy –
Machinery and Equipment Sector and Building Materials and Construction, its prioritized
investment opportunities, and investor attraction plan and activated investment attraction
across 1500+ investors for potential JVs, partnerships across China, Germany, Czech
Republic, France, India etc. He worked on the Building Material and Construction Sector
and Services Strategy for a GCC country, its prioritized investment opportunities, and
investor attraction plan and activated investment attraction across 200+ investors. He also
developed the operating model, transition for a $7bn EPC petrochemical mega-project for a
GCC oil and gas company.
Prior to consulting, he has worked with Amazon (E-commerce Operations), Halliburton, and
Baker Hughes across US, UK, Argentina, Singapore, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and
India in several technical and engineering roles globally.
He holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) and engineering
graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IITR)
