Companies have many good ideas. The difference between winning and losing is leaders who have the courage to turn those ideas into decisive moves and harness their teams to follow through on them.

Kumu Puri

EY-Parthenon Principal, Strategy and Transactions, Ernst & Young LLP

Passionate about strategies to help technology companies grow. Balance innovation with the realities of execution.

Areas of focus

Kumu is a leader within the EY-Parthenon practice. She is a member of the Ernst & Young LLP Strategy and Transactions group in San Francisco with a focus on clients in the technology, media and entertainment, and telecommunications industries.

She brings over 20 years’ experience working with technology companies to architect transformational strategies to accelerate growth and shareholder value. She collaborates with cross-functional teams on new go-to-market and sales strategies, business model shifts, operating model redesign, digital strategy, customer experience/analytics, acquisitions and divestitures.

Kumu received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University (Montreal, Canada).

How Kumu is building a better working world

Kumu works alongside technology company leaders to grow their businesses by providing hands-on industry experience. She delivers actionable and pragmatic advice to companies that are being disrupted or are disrupting others. In doing so, she is a big believer in bringing forward the full power of teams with diverse backgrounds and experiences to get to the best answers.

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