Murali Hariharan

Senior Management Professional

Murali Hariharan is a globally experienced IT Industry Business professional with over 27 years of industry experience.Currently, he heads the Strategy Division for Asia Pacific & Japan at AWS, based at Singapore.

He has earlier been an Independent Strategy and Business Consultant, working actively with a portfolio of SMB companies and start-ups in India, USA and Singapore.

His focus has been in transforming product and technology focused organisations into commercially active entities- building and facilitating deployment of leveraged business models for sustainable growth.Having worked earlier in leadership roles for Business Building, Strategic Alliances and Partnerships in organizations like IBM, Oracle, Redington, Wipro and Eutech Cybernetics, he has an excellent understanding of different models of market engagement.He has been responsible for setting up multiple successful and profitable businesses and programs as an intrapreneur- from Printer Consumables and Peripherals for Wipro, to ISV and Global Entrepreneur program for IBM. As the Managing Director and Global Head-Venture strategy with the Viridian Group, he was responsible for bringing a UK based Accelerator into India, and setting up two centers of excellence in India, while helping start-up investments.

Murali is a PGDM from IIM Bangalore, and an Electronics & Communication Engineer from College of Engineering, Chennai.

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