Ken Balakrishnan

Ken Balakrishnan, serves as MHK’s Vice President for MarketProminence Development and Strategy and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the design and development of the MarketProminence platform and related custom development. Ken is focused on maintaining and extending robust compliance and process automation and streamlining MarketProminence capabilities.

Ken joined the company in 1998 as a Developer (prior to MHK’s purchase of CPS and its market-leading MarketProminence technology). In 2001 Ken became the Lead Developer for the MarketProminence technology where he was instrumental in transforming the technology from a small sales and marketing application to a full-featured Medicare Advantage enterprise solution.

During his tenure with the company, Ken acquired significant expertise in Medicare Advantage enrollment, billing, and risk-adjusted payment functionalities, allowing him to progress to Director of MarketProminence Development. Ken took on the management of the custom development team and established policies and practices that significantly increased the reliability and maintainability of that team’s code.

Ken holds a Bachelor of Science with honors in Computer Science from Stanford University in Stanford, California, and a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages from Yale University in New Haven Connecticut.