Shankar Iyer
President and COO at Galent • Executive Strategist • AI / ML • Management Consulting • Innovation • Transformation Agent • Board Member – Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business
- Role
- President & COO at Galent
- Location
- Great Falls, VA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Shankar Iyer
Throughout my career as a transformative, entrepreneurial executive and business builder in the global management consulting field, I have served as a trusted partner and value driver to client C-level leaders on a broad variety of matters, including strategic innovation, digital transformation, and a spectrum of data modernization tools. Following a distinguished tenure as a Principal Consultant with \"Big Four\" firm PwC and as Managing Consultant at IBM Global Services, I founded SyApps, an information technology and management consulting and advisory firm. Over the span of sixteen years, I built SyApps into a leading provider in its space, delivering the full lifecycle of complex enterprise program portfolios that transformed and elevated our clients\' operations and P&L performance.In 2019, after selling SyApps to ACS Solutions, a global IT consulting and services provider, I joined the company as a Senior Vice President, in which I head the Mid-Atlantic Region comprised of the former SyApps business, direct our internal IT and digital capabilities, and collaborate with our CEO and other executive leaders on strategy, business development, and product and service innovation.In 2023, I founded, The CNTRL Inc. with the intention to Optimize, Transform and Scale organizations. Furthermore, I actively contribute my expertise as the Chairman of the MIT Advisory Board for Virginia Tech\'s Pamplin College of Business.Core Strategic Competencies: Vision Definition • Executive Leadership • Management Consulting • P&L Ownership • Corporate Strategy • Business Transformation • Mergers & Acquisitions • Investor Relations • Value Building • Product Management • Growth Engineering • Leadership Development • C-Level Business Development • Governance • Risk Management
Experience
President & COO
Nov 2024 — Present · US
Excited to be a part of Galent at such a transformative time in its journey. Galent is a bold leap into the future of AI-enabled transformative digital solutions. With a vision to create truly composable businesses that can shapeshift and adapt to the demands of the future, Galent will empower organizations to ride the AI wave through cutting-edge, unified, and enterprise-ready AI solutions.Looking forward to shaping the future of Responsible AI-enabled innovation and Enterprise transformation.
Education
Virginia Tech - Pamplin College of Business
Master of Science - MS, Information Technology
University of Mumbai
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering
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