Amit Kumar
Managing Director & Partner
New York
Amit Kumar is a core member of The Boston Consulting Group’s Financial Institutions and Insurance practice. He is also a core member of the Marketing, Sales & Pricing practice (MSPA) and has significant expertise in large-scale change management.
Since joining BCG in 2010, Amit has acquired extensive on-the-ground experience working with financial services clients in India and Southeast Asia to craft and execute business transformation programs. Typical efforts undertaken by Amit tend to span several years and require direct accountability for results. His work involves a highly cross-functional approach that cuts across sales, marketing, operations, digital strategy, and HR.
A majority of Amit’s client work also entails developing and delivering digital prototypes to embed new programs in the client companies. He has also led programs for developing and deploying new digital strategy.
Amit is a regular speaker at major industry conferences, and he contributes widely to various media publications.
Prior to joining BCG, Amit founded and ran Grail Research, a $15 million firm with more than 350 associates across five offices. Grail Research won several awards for business innovation and was the subject of a
Harvard Business School case study. He previously worked for Monitor's consulting practice as a project manager.
This corporate function does best if it has the right amount of centralization and its role evolves during transformations.
The Asset Management industry in India has the potential to cross INR 100 trillion in AuM in the twenties. Reaching the INR 100 trillion vision during the mid-twenties can help the industry become the 11-13th largest asset management industry in the world from its current standing of 17th largest asset management industry.