Abhishek Agarwal

AI Strategy - Carnegie Mellon

New York City Metropolitan Area

About

Strategist and builder. Happy to connect and share more!

Experience

  • Accenture (2 yrs 3 mos)
    • Strategy Consultant
      May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

    • Strategy Senior Analyst
      Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Strategy Analyst
      Apr 2024 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Global Management Trainee at Hunter Douglas, Inc.
    Oct 2023 - Mar 2024 · 6 mos

    Engage in company overhaul after recent $7.1 billion privatization by private equity firm 3G Capital • Rotate through over 5 different corporate functions in order to develop a deep understanding of the product, customers, and value chain • Leverage unexplored synergies within the company due to prior M&A • Analyze business-wide processes to reduce inefficiencies and promote best practices • Optimize product development to reduce costs and increase product-market fit

  • Teaching Assistant (Intro to Crypto, Blockchains, and Applications 17-303) at Carnegie Mellon University
    Aug 2022 - Dec 2022 · 5 mos

    Facilitated instruction and improvement of CMU course under professor Nicholas Christin • Enabled students to perform research on topics such as decentralized exchanges, proof-of-stake, and privacy • Delivered 10 technical presentations on topics such as cryptography and distributed consensus • Evaluated and provided feedback on 58 students’ coursework and discuss alternate solutions to problems sets

  • Summer Strategy Analyst at Accenture
    Jun 2022 - Aug 2022 · 3 mos

    Developed a go-to-market strategy for a $16B market cap observability and data monitoring client • Worked cross-functionally to resolve disconnects between engineering, sales, and the client to propose a packaging strategy for 27 of the client’s product capabilities • Constructed a 5-question survey based on market research that helped gauge users’ needs before meeting • Verified effectiveness of strategy with 100% preference of new bundling according to sales representatives • Designed a reporting program to automate quarterly sales tracking and reduced turnaround by 75%

  • Tartan Ambassador (Tour Guide) at Carnegie Mellon University
    Sep 2021 - Jan 2022 · 5 mos

    Worked with a team of 43 tour guides to give in-person and virtual campus tours to thousands of applicants and families • Worked on developing and perfecting a 45 minute tour of campus and delivered the tour to prospective students, families, and tourists • Collaborated with University Communications & Marketing Division to ensure branding remained consistent and portrayed CMU in the best light