Shanker Ramamurthy is the Global Managing Partner, Banking & Financial Markets, IBM Consulting. He leads a practice with revenues in excess of $4.0 billion that focuses on bank transformation, core banking, and payments.

Over 25 years, he has worked in forty-plus countries across all six continents at 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 was ranked one of the 50 most influential financial services consultants worldwide by Euromoney magazine.

Shanker currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN.org). He has a MS in Information Science, University of New South Wales, Australia; an MBA, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; and a BS in Mathematics, University of Madras, Chennai. He is also a Chartered Accountant, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.