Nikola Basta is a Director in KPMG’s Technology Consulting practice, known for leading complex digital and ICT transformations across industries and helping organizations bring order and structure to their most challenging technology agendas. With a rare combination of technical and business overview, strategic leadership, and delivery discipline, he operates at the intersection of architecture, governance, and execution.
Nikola’s career spans banking, advanced analytics, systems integration, and large scale transformation programs. This cross domain background allows him to bridge conversations between architects, engineers, and C suite leaders translating strategic ambition into practical, actionable roadmaps. He has played a key role in modernizing mission critical environments in the energy, financial services, retail, and public sector domains, supporting executive teams as they navigate regulatory pressures, modernization demands, legacy system limitations, and rising cybersecurity expectations.
He is recognized for establishing strong governance, simplifying complex technical landscapes, and driving initiatives that enhance operational stability, resilience, and long term digital maturity. His experience includes rearchitecting ICT systems, leading data driven transformation programs, designing enterprise platforms, standing up PMOs, managing Advance Analytics, AI and digital maturity assessments, and guiding organizations through cloud, infrastructure, and integration redesign.
What drives Nikola is simple: helping clients build organizations capable of learning, adapting, and thriving. For him, technology is not the destination, it’s the enabler. At KPMG, he champions a mission shared across the firm: pairing human insight with technological innovation to build solutions that last. He leads with empathy, clarity, and a belief that progress happens when people understand both the “why” and the “how.”