Area of expertise:
Social enterprises, Impact Investing, SMEs, Business Modeling, Business Transformation, Market research, Corporate Strategy, Innovation
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Karnika Yadav is a Director at Intellecap’s Africa office, leading business consulting and research practice for Intellecap Africa. She has over 12 years of experience in international development and management consulting in Africa and other developing markets . At Intellecap, she is focused on developing innovative business models, scaling up enterprises, designing & implementing solutions for low-income population and contributing towards solving the problem of unemployment and under-employment across the developing world. Karnika has worked on multiple consulting assignments across sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, education, financial inclusion, retail and livelihood.

Prior to joining Aavishkaar Intellecap Group, Karnika was working with a boutique consulting company in East Africa that focused on transforming medium and large businesses into trans-generational enterprises. Karnika’s experience is spread across continents, she has also worked with Ministry of Social Solidarity in East Timor as National Advisor; Expedia-France as Financial Analyst; IBM-India as Technology Architect and General Motors-India as Assistant Manager.

Karnika has a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, India and a master’s degree in International Business from Grenoble Graduate School of Business, France.