Janaki Akella

Summary

I am excited by the recent trend of two-way movement between Board and C-Suite and enjoy enhancing my Executive expertise as the sitting Board Director at Southern Company, a $75B market cap public Gas and Electric Utility I am humbled to have been conferred the Distinguished Alumni Award by my alma mater, CEG, Asia’s oldest Technical Institution I am a seasoned executive with unique experience blending technology background with global strategy consulting as McKinsey & Co Partner, Operations leadership and Digital Transformation as a Google Executive and executive management as a Public Board Director I have successfully driven large scale business transformations having been privileged to lead 100+ consulting engagements at McKinsey working directly for the F100 C-Suite in High-tech Growth strategy, Business and Digital Transformation in North America, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Representative engagements: - Identified $40B Internet Of Things aggressive growth strategy for CSO at Top 3 Semiconductor Manufacturer by integrating money flows, competitor strategies and unresolved pain points - Launched online business for CEO of Top 3 ERP company; developed dynamic pricing strategy, product & technology roadmap, established strategic partnerships, captured $100M revenue in Yr 1 - Re-engineered supply chain for the CIO and COO at Top 3 PC manufacturer; improved order lead time by 35%, decreased late orders by 87% and moved customer satisfaction to the top quartile - Transformed Customer Data for CDOs of Top 3 Global Retail Banks & State Departments of Education- aggregated siloed data, tackled transactional performance, addressed GDPR/ key regs I have the unique distinction of being the first woman partner elected globally in Digital McKinsey; I also led McKinsey’s global Managing Technology Program as its Dean and coached McKinsey’s next generation Next, I complemented my consulting and strategic skills as an Operational executive at Google - Acted as the Google Cloud CIO and together with the C-Suite delivered a complex $100M Google Cloud GTM foundational platform, for functionality from order management to fulfillment, and contract management to revenue forecasting - Built and scaled the Technical/Program Management function (4X in 3 years) for the Ads Privacy and Safety group protecting $240B of Ads revenue. Successfully led business planning; managed delivery of highly complex anti-fraud and abuse, privacy and regulations programs to protect advertisers, publishers and users across entire Google Ads Please contact me for full resume