Shanker Ramamurthy

Shanker Ramamurthy is the Global Managing Partner Banking & Financial Markets in IBM Consulting. He leads a consulting practice with over 30,000 consultants serving banking clients globally, responsible for revenues in excess of $4.0 billion and with a particular focus on bank transformation, core banking & payments.

Over the last 25 years as a consultant and business executive he has worked in all the six continents across forty plus countries in the intersection of strategy, information technology, and financial services. He is a well-known thought leader with five patents relating to addressing complexity, has authored several white papers, and been ranked as one of the 50 most influential financial services consultants worldwide by Euromoney magazine.

Shanker also serves on the Board of Directors of BIAN.org (Banking Industry Architecture Network), a global standards organization developing industry standards for banking services.

Earlier in his career Shanker was a Partner in the consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, initially in Australia and then in New York leading the Financial Services Strategy practice worldwide until 2002 and joined IBM when it acquired the consulting arm of PwC.

Shanker also spent three years (2011 thru 2014) with Thomson Reuters Corporation, initially as President of Financial Professional & Marketplaces, a $5.5 billion business that delivered news, information, and analytics to trading, investing, financial, and corporate professionals. For the last two years, and as an officer of the company, Shanker created and built the $1.2 billion Global Growth & Operations strategic business unit.

Shanker has a MS in Information Science from the University of New South Wales in Australia, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad and a BS in Mathematics from the University of Madras. He also qualified as a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.