About

Akash Srivastava is a highly accomplished and driven Management Consultant with a rich background in IT consulting. He has a full-time MBA in International Business with a major in Marketing from the prestigious Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), where he was a 99.53 percentiler in the national level entrance test. He completed his B.Tech in IT with Honours from the reputed Harcourt Butler Technological Institute (HBTI) Kanpur. Akash has a significant pre-MBA work experience of 5+ years working with IT firms such as IBM, Accenture, and HCL Tech, providing consulting services to clients from various sectors such as Financial Services, Energy&Utilities, Retail, Telecom, and Healthcare. Currently, Akash is working as a Management Consultant in the Financial Services practice at Infosys Consulting, where he focuses on Compliance&Regulatory domain. He has a working knowledge of Retail and Institutional Banking, KYC, Customer Due Diligence, Enhanced Customer Due Diligence, Anti Money Laundering systems (AML), Automation in Banking systems, and is well-versed in design and creation of FRDs, Functional Requirement Gathering, creation of PoVs, Business analysis, Scrum/Agile related roles. He is also a certified Scrum Master CSM® and a certified SAFe 5 PO/PM® professional. Akash is part of the illustrious IC-Thought Leadership Team at Infosys Consulting and the IC-Academy Team at Infosys Consulting. Akash is an extrovert and a true cosmopolitan Indian who enjoys social gatherings and travelling. He has lived in more than 10 cities in India and takes great pride in addressing the untouched dilemmas of society and its associated culture. He is highly progressive towards society-related outlook and believes in helping others to all possible extents. In addition to his professional and academic achievements, Akash has completed a Digital Consulting Internship at Valuelabs, where he proposed a Conversational AI-based Digitization solution to lead to effort and cost savings. He also worked as a Senior Analyst at HCL Noida in a Health-care project based out of Noida, working as an Individual Contributor, and managed Team Leading activities along with extensive Onshore client handling activity and other onshore interactions. Akash's education history includes a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from IIFT and a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Information Technology from HBTU. Akash