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Varun Kejriwal joined Boston Consulting Group in May 2012. He is a core member of the Financial Institutions and People & Organization practices at the firm, and leads the Seat-At-The-Table (SATT) agenda and marketing activities for the People & Organization practice in Asia Pacific.

Varun is an expert in digital performance management, leadership development, organization design, end-to-end customer journey digitization, post-merger integration, digital-first business build, and market entry strategy.

Recently, Varun has been focusing on helping financial institutions and public sector enterprises leverage digital to better serve employees and customers. He is a co-author of BCG’s annual FIBAC productivity report on the Indian banking industry, produced with FICCI and the Indian Banks’ Association.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

  • MBA, XLRI Jamshedpur
  • BE, computer science and engineering, Birla Institute of Technology

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • XLRI Diamond Jubilee Award, XLRI Jamshedpur, 2012

Publications and Videos

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India’s HR Revolution: Building Workplaces for the Future

Discover how top Indian CXOs are reshaping HR with purpose-driven culture and cutting-edge tech. Dive into our report on the future of workplaces in India.
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Indian Banking Sector: Top Updates

BCG India's Banking Sector Update offers the overview of the banking sector of India each quarter by sharing rich insights on various indicators such as the macro trends of the economy, key performance indicators of the banking industry, overall industry's risk management, PSU banks' valuation, digital banking adoption and future outlook.
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India’s Non-Banking Financial Sector: Top updates

BCG India's semi-annually released report on the country's Non-Banking Financial Sector offers a comprehensive analysis of the key performance indicators, trajectory of various types of loans in the country, recent trends of the industry and the technologies defining a new paradigm for NBFCs and FinTechs in India.
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The Poster Child

Banks need to embrace holding structures that can unbundle ‘Fintech Premium’ to attract talent. The industry needs to actively promote Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) platform to ward-off the threat of BigTech. The regulator and government need to re-imagine co-lending as a digital marketplace and unlock massive potential of blockchain.
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Open Season For PSBs

In the coming months, the launch of consent-based data-sharing in Indian banking will unleash the true power of ‘open banking’. Open banking allows banking services to be offered to consumers on a non-banking entity’s channel or platform, while the banks stay invisible to the customer.
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FIBAC 2019: Annual Benchmarking and Insights

As the banking sector nears the point of inflection, there is a need to assess new paradigms which would define the success for the banking industry.
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Digital Sales: The Final Frontier

In an increasingly digital world, banks have taken various strides on digital transformation. While several banks in India have invested and reaped significant rewards by digitizing transactions, automating back-office operations and reimagining customer journeys, achieving excellence in digital sales still remains elusive.
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Unlocking Success in Corporate Banking through Digital

Today's corporate banks operate in a challenging and turbulent environment. To thrive in this environment, corporate banks need to ride the digital wave and leverage the currency of big data with one of the most powerful tools of modern banking – advanced analytics.