Rahul Bhasin is a Partner in the Toronto office of Kearney. He is a seasoned advisor with 15+ years experience partnering with CXOs and senior executives at industry leading companies in telecom, media, retail, technology and financial services across Canada, USA, Europe and Asia. Complemented with 10 years of direct operational and P&L leadership as well as entrepreneurial & start up experience.

Rahul has deep expertise in value creation & acceleration (including EBITDA & profitability improvement, restructuring), corporate development (including M&A, DD, PMI), transformation (including business & operating models, outsourcing and procurement), and tech enabled operations (including applying AI for business outcomes), as well as in growth related topics (business development, product development, new product launch, sales and marketing). He has extensive experience leading efforts to develop new offerings & launching businesses (start up as well as Fortune-500 incubated) and building the required delivery backbone (people, processes, operations, technology) to support the business objectives.

Rahul joined Kearney initially in 2003 and left after 10 years to co-found a start-up that built a cloud based platform for managing restaurant operations with a closed loop digital payment service. Subsequently he was an executive adviser at Rogers and then leader in value creation team at BCE (Bell) helping drive the inorganic growth agenda plus leading other in-house CXO-level strategic initiatives. He rejoined the firm in 2019.

Rahul has been a speaker at various industry forums including NASSCOM, CNBC and others, and has authored several articles and industry perspectives. He earned his undergraduate degree and management diploma from India and an MBA from SMU’s Cox School of Business.

Notable client engagements include:

Multiple value creation and cost transformation programs for large Fortune 500 organizations. Prominent examples include a $1 billion annual value program for a large telecom operator, a $250M annual benefit program for a leading financial services group, a $200M program for a leading regional telecom operator
Renegotiated the largest IT outsourcing relationship (>$2B LTV) for a leading Fortune 500 achieving 10% reduction in costs through an improved contract with streamlined service levels and reduced complexity
Redesigned customer experience for a Fortune 100 retail leader to counter rapid changes in industry landscape including adapting the delivery capability
International expansion and growth strategy for a $10B revenue specialist retailer, including developing action plan for growth countries
Numerous due diligence engagements, across several industries and geographies, for both financial investors and strategic buyers
While at BCE, Rahul was involved with several mergers and acquisititions transactions (both acquisition and divestiture) including serving as the lead for Bell’s integration of AlarmForce (TSX: AF)