Sankaranarayanan “Shanky” Viswanathan

Shanky Viswanathan is a Business Leader, Industry Advisor and Technologist in the CTO Group in TCS. As Head of Business Innovation, Shanky works with CxOs to help shape their strategic business initiatives and unlock new business opportunities by harnessing the transformative, and sometimes disruptive, potential of technology. He is currently focused on helping customers prepare and build for the future by harnessing the full might of Generative AI, Operational Technology modernization, accelerate energy transition and a reimagined toolset for NetZero acceleration. Within TCS, Shanky is leading the incubation of next generation business capabilities and big bets that will power the future growth of TCS.

Prior to this role, Shanky has performed various Business and Technology leadership roles across markets and Industries. He has led industry units for TCS, incubated and scaled large account relationships, spearheaded multiple large scale business transformation and system integration initiatives for customers and has headed architecture boards and functions in various customer organizations. He has been part of industry advisory boards and holds multiple patents in real-world business solutions exploiting digital technologies.

A native of Chennai, India, Shanky holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering. He is a passionate barefoot runner, a trained percussionist of Carnatic music and a movie buff.

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Smart factory, smart opportunities: How 5G is driving new models and markets for telcos

Blog | 23 Jun 2021

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