Akash Kedia

Managing Director
20+ years of professional experience
Expertise in business growth, improving profitability, and building future-fit capabilities for life sciences clients
Focuses on life sciences, wellness, and consumer goods sectors
Mumbai
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Akash Kedia is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Business Transformation Services in Mumbai. He focuses on the life sciences sector and specializes in driving large-scale transformation programs. His primary areas of concentration are driving business growth, improving profitability, and building future-fit capabilities for clients.

With more than 20 years of consulting and industry experience across pharma, wellness, and consumer goods clients, Mr. Kedia brings expertise across both strategic and operational elements. He has led multiple programs across business and operations strategy, digital transformation, revenue growth, and operational excellence.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Kedia led the life sciences industry vertical for Accenture in India and was responsible for growing its consulting and digital business. During his time at Accenture, he led multiple complex value enhancement transformation programs with clients across India, the U.S., Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. His clients included leading corporates and private equity investee companies. Prior to Accenture, he worked with Mercer and Shell.

Mr. Kedia earned a bachelor’s degree in computer applications from DAVV, Indore, and an MBA from Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon.

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Akash Kedia and Amit Misra share their insights on the transformative trends shaping the Indian pharmaceutical landscape in an exclusive interview with Express Pharma.
Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) India has announced the appointment of Akash Kedia as Managing Director within its Life Sciences Business Transformation Services practice to expand its capabilities in the Healthcare and Life Sciences sector to better serve clients in an increasingly complex and competitive landscape.
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April 2026 is set to hit small UK retailers with a fresh wave of cost hikes, pilling pressure onto a sector many say is facing its toughest time since Covid. Rising wage, insurance, sick pay, business rates, energy standing charges, and reduced owner take‑home pay arrive as consumer demand softens and inflation fears persist amid geopolitical tensions. SMEs enter with limited resilience and mounting headwinds—including late payments, crime, and heavier admin/tax burdens—raising the risk of closures or contraction. The piece urges defensive cost control where necessary and, where possible, smarter pricing, operational efficiency, and targeted automation/analytics to protect margins and conserve working capital.