Karan Batra

Director – Strategic Accounts,
Lead - Shared Service Centers, APJ & Emerging Markets

Karan is the Business Head for strategic accounts in APAC, Japan & Emerging Markets and Regional Leader – Shared Services segment at Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters combine industry expertise across corporations, government, shared-service centres and professional services firms, with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.

Karan is responsible for helping clients transform their operating models and achieve their future state digital objectives by leveraging content enabled solutions. He spent the first 8 years in the Content, Technology & Operations Organization at Reuters and then Thomson Reuters with the key mandate of expanding the existing global COE into strategic locations, including India, supporting client business of over $3 billion and delivering 25% in operational cost savings. Karan is an avid club level cricketer and currently trying to understand NFTs & digital currencies