San Francisco
Kimmi is an accomplished senior executive with extensive experience in building high growth technology companies, products, and solutions that positively impact the world. She has an entrepreneurial mindset with a strong track record of delivering superior financial returns. She has driven sustainable top line revenue growth ($5B+) and market share (10%+) at multiple multinationals and formed several new digital businesses ($1B+) at Fortune 500 companies.
She is recognized for her innovation in identifying alternative product/solution, channel, customer, and earnings models at companies, and led organizations to reinvent their operating structure to be more agile and adapt to changing demands of the market, customers, partners, and employees. Kimmi is effective in creating cultures of trust, integrity, and collaboration and is committed to diversity, inclusion, and talent development.
Kimmi leads teams focused on accelerating growth, innovation, entrepreneurship, and digital transformation at mid and large cap enterprises. She oversees all aspects of company strategy, business development, and operational execution. Previously, as Chief Strategy Officer of a confidential startup, Kimmi was on the executive leadership team responsible for driving the development of integrated growth strategy, business plan, capital allocation process, key strategic initiatives, and all aspects of marketing and communications.
Prior to that, Kimmi had a 15-year tenure at Accenture where she held progressively responsible positions. Most recently as Managing Director in the strategy arm of Accenture, she was responsible for Accenture Communications, Media, and Technology (CMT) Strategy’s business from San Diego to Santa Barbara, a $500M+ market with ~50 team members. She was responsible for market growth, including business and talent development, delivering $12M+ in annual strategy sales at two large technology companies, and a pipeline of $10M+ at new break-in accounts.
During her tenure at Accenture, Kimmi held strategic responsibilities for Accenture North America ($20B business), including the go-to-market innovation approach, consulting strategy, ventures, and acquisitions strategy as well as strategic board and business review materials. She worked directly with Accenture’s global CEO and North America Leadership Team to inform growth strategy and operating investment decisions for the region. Early in her career at Accenture, she was recruited to join the exclusive global strategy group, which was Accenture’s global cross-industry growth and operating model strategy capability.
Kimmi has a Master of Business Administration with a focus on Strategy and Entrepreneurship from the London Business School, London, UK. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science cum laude & honors from the University of California Los Angeles. She completed exchange programs at Cambridge University in the UK and Columbia University in New York. She has written numerous publications, participated in advisory and board leadership roles, and is fluent in English, Punjabi and Hindi, and conversational in Spanish.