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Keshav Karunakar

Editor · DISC type CS
Vice President , Head KPIT academy at KPIT
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Keshav is a passionate entrepreneur and technology leader, currently serving as the Vice President and Head of KPIT Academy. He co-founded PathPartner Technology, guiding it to a successful acquisition by KPIT. Colleagues describe him as a committed, inspiring, and passionate leader with an educational background that includes a management program from IIM Bangalore.

Outside of his corporate role, Keshav is a dedicated algorithmic trader who taught himself by reading over 400 books on technical analysis. He is also committed to mentoring the next generation, frequently giving career talks to engineering students and advising universities on their curriculum to better align with industry needs.

He has developed his own proprietary algorithms for financial trading based entirely on self-learning and extensive reading.

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Experience
18 Years
Current Role
Vice President , Head KPIT academy
Job Level
Senior
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Personality Overview

How Keshav shows up

Self-Disciplined
Fact-Driven
Objective Thinker

They do not like taking risks at all and go for proven options in the end. They are always well-planned and adopt a systematic approach. They are quite aware of their needs and limitations, so they are unlikely to over-promise.

Priorities

Topics Keshav cares about

Talent Development
As the Head of KPIT Academy, he is passionately rebuilding the company's approach to learning and development to create top-tier talent for the automotive industry.
Entrepreneurship
He possesses a founder's mindset, having co-founded and scaled PathPartner Technology before its successful acquisition by KPIT in 2021.
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Career

Work history

7-2024
Vice President , Head KPIT academy
KPIT
7-2007 - 7-2024
Co-Founder, VP Engineering
PathPartner Technology Pvt Ltd
Engineering project manager
Aricent
Project Manager
Emuzed India
Engineering project manager
Emuzed India Pvt Ltd
In the press

Media appearances

Ep. 25 | Keshav Karunakar, Head of Learning and Development, KPIT. Featured in YouTube
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Education
2016 - 2017
EGMP-39
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
2000 - 2002
MCA
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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