Raaghavendar Karthikeyan is a consulting associate with a rare blend of hands-on fintech software engineering and corporate strategy experience, now augmented by an MBA from Columbia Business School. Over an 11-year career he moved from building production systems at Morningstar to shaping M&A and strategic initiatives in corporate development roles, then transitioned into management consulting at McKinsey. He’s comfortable translating technical complexity into business-ready recommendations, having lived both the engineering and strategy sides of product and finance organizations. Based in Chicago, he brings practical experience in finance operations and strategy for energy-tech (SolarKal) alongside institutional investment research at Morningstar. Colleagues value his ability to bridge code-level tradeoffs with high-level commercial impact — a skill sharpened by early research and internship roles in performance-focused software.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Columbia Business School
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Purdue University
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