Krishnan is an innovation management speaker and consultant with more than 25 years of experience. He is an Innovation Management Black Belt ?, part of an elite group of global innovation experts to have achieved this after a very rigorous evaluation by the pioneers in innovation consulting, Innovation360 Group.

He helps organizations approach innovation systematically; define the agenda, choose the right innovation strategy, innovate not just products but also process, management system, service delivery, production, and organization.

He has over 25 years of varied industry experience spanning steel, automotive, FMCG and business consulting. His functional expertise includes innovation, operations excellence, supply chain, strategy development and execution as well as product development. These skills have been honed during a career spent at organizations such as Ford, Castrol/BP, Ashok Leyland, and Jindal and in consulting organizations such as Valcon (leading consulting firm in Scandinavia), McKinsey and ECS Ltd (now part of PwC).

In 2019, Innovation360 selected Krishnan as only one of 15 global InnovationIQ assessors. The InnovationIQ score is an international rating system that measures how well prepared a business is to manage innovation across their organization. This certification signals that an organization is developing its capacity for innovative action, and actively working to align these efforts with key initiatives and organizational capabilities.