Siddharth Balachandran

Siddharth Balachandran serves as the Head of Airbus Innovation Center, Head of Scale, and Airbus BizLab Leader for India and South Asia, having joined Airbus in July 2016. Prior to this role, Siddharth worked as a Trade Advisor for the French Trade Commission from June 2013 to July 2016, and co-founded Global Ants Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd, which provided support for Indian and French companies. Previous experience includes serving as a Relationship Manager at Akamai Technologies, where business development efforts spanned the Southern European and LATAM regions. Siddharth also contributed to HSBC by leading the migration of a French financial support team to India and started a career as a Technical Support Associate at Amazon.com. Siddharth holds an MBA from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University and a BAC in Communication from Lycée Français de Pondichéry.