He will lead the firm's business across the Asia Pacific region and oversee strategy, operations, training and development.
Bain & Company on Thursday announced the appointment of Satish Shankar as Regional Managing Partner for the Asia Pacific region, effective 1 April.
Shankar is a 20-year veteran of Bain. For the past five years, he was the firm's Managing Partner for Southeast Asia, helping to develop the firms’ new offices in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand into some of the most successful growth pillars for the firm. He works with clients across Energy and Natural Resources, Transportation, and Consumer Products on Strategy, Transformation, Performance Improvement and M&A. He has also led Bain’s M&A Practice across APAC.
In his new role, Shankar will lead Bain's business development, training and strategy in the region. He will also continue working with the management teams of national and multinational companies to help them transform their organizations to become more efficient, competitive and future-ready.
Helping APAC Clients be Disruptors
Shankar takes over from Dale Cottrell, who has served in the role for the past six years. Cottrell will return to advisory work for the firm as part of Bain's «servant-leader» model in which partners regularly rotate into leadership roles and back to client work.
According to the company, Bain’s APAC Markets have seen unprecedented success under Cottrell's leadership, both in terms of strong double-digit growth, but also in terms of clients, people and the firms’ strategic priority to deliver leading-edge digital and analytic solutions to help clients drive disruptive results.
«It’s been a true privilege to serve in this role for the past six years and to have seen the firm continue to achieve monumental success and growth across cutting edge technology solutions, from AI, machine learning and blockchain to automation, robotics and IoT,» Cottrell said.
