About

Three Decades Bridging Global Boardrooms and Indian Delivery.

Anupam Pattanayak—known to clients and colleagues simply as AP—has spent nearly three decades at the intersection of global corporate strategy and India-based execution. Across leadership roles with government, public sector units, and top Fortune 500 consulting, product development, and services MNCs and start-ups, he has established and scaled more than 25 Global Capability Centers for Fortune 500 enterprises and supported over 100 Fortune 500 GCC engagements in total in over 18 countries.

His practice today spans the full lifecycle of enterprise India strategy: GCC feasibility, set-up and transformation, CXO’s and Board Advisory, Enterprise Risk and Governance, ESG Readiness, Location and Benchmarking analytics, and M&A advisory—brought together under Anupam Pattanayak, Advisory Services.

AP is a Certified Independent Director (Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs), an alumnus of IIM Calcutta and IIFT New Delhi, and holds certifications including Diploma in NLP, Lean and Six Sigma Black Belt,Diploma in CSR and Diploma in ESG and BRSR Strategy and GHG Accounting. He advises and mentors startup boards on values-driven leadership.

Anupam authored The Dharma Code: Ancient Ethics, Modern Boardrooms, to offer CXOs and modern boards a practical framework for ethical leadership. 

Read more at anupampattanayak.com

25+

GCCs established

100+ in 18 Countries

GCC Clients Managed

IIM & IIFT

Alumnus

IICA

Certified Independent Director

How I Work With Clients

Engagements range from focused advisory — a location decision, a board review, a risk framework — to hands-on delivery leadership for a GCC set-up from day zero to steady state. Most clients start with a scoped diagnostic before committing to a larger mandate.

"Every boardroom is, in some sense, a modern Kurukshetra. The organizations that endure are the ones whose leaders combine strategic clarity with ethical conviction."
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