BOARD & CXO ADVISORY
Turning bold ideas into board‑ready execution.
Dr Ramesh Shanmuganathan advises boards and C-suites on digital strategy, governance and resilience — drawn from 25 years of building and running technology-led businesses, not from a slide deck.
20+ at C-level
across 7 verticals
US to SEA
THE POINT OF INFLECTION
Most transformation programmes modernise the wrapper around a business. The work that matters starts at the inflection point — where strategy, technology and governance move together.
SERVICES
Three ways to work together
Every engagement is structured around how much of your time you need from us — from a standing seat at the board table to a tightly scoped project.
01
Board Advisory as a Service
A trusted advisor on call for your board — complementing existing expertise, stress-testing strategy, and acting as a sounding board on digital and technology risk. Priced pay-as-you-consult, so you draw on it only when you need it.
02
CXO as a Service
Fractional, senior-level counsel for your C-suite — a second opinion from someone who has run the function, not just consulted on it. Suited to leadership teams who need experience on tap without a full-time hire.
03
Scope-based Engagements
A defined piece of work with a clear brief, timeline and outcome — for organisations that know the problem and want focused, senior delivery rather than an open-ended retainer.
APPROACH
The tools behind the advice
Frameworks we use to move a conversation from opinion to evidence — matched to the problem, not applied by default.
•Design Thinking
A five-stage, non-linear process — empathise, define, ideate, prototype, test — used to tackle problems that are not yet well defined, before committing budget to a fixed solution.
•Blue Ocean Strategy
A framework for pursuing differentiation and lower cost at the same time, to open space where competitors aren't — rather than fighting for share in a market everyone already serves.
•Journey Mapping
A visual map of how customers actually experience your organisation across every channel, used to find friction points and the highest-value places to invest.
•Business Model Canvas
A single-page view of how a business creates, delivers and captures value across nine building blocks — a fast way to pressure-test a model before scaling it.
Dr Ramesh Shanmuganathan
ABOUT
Dr Ramesh Shanmuganathan
Founder & Managing Partner, ramesh24inc & company
Ramesh is a C-suite executive with more than 25 years of experience, 20 of them at the C-level, across the USA, UK, Nordics, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Southeast Asia. He has worked alongside McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte, Gartner, EY, PwC, KPMG, SAP, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Google, AWS and others to transform organisations for the data-driven, experience economy.
He currently serves as Executive Vice President and Group CIO of John Keells Group, a diversified group of 70+ companies across 7 industry verticals, and as CEO of its IT consultancy and services arm, John Keells IT, and its open-innovation/startup incubator.
He holds a PhD and MBA, a Master's in Computer Science, and a First Class Honours degree in Electrical & Telecommunication Engineering, and is a Hayes-Fulbright scholar and a member of the Forbes Council.
INSIGHTS
Recent thinking
Notes on governance, resilience and leadership from boardrooms and C-suites across the region.
The New Enterprise Stack: Service as a Software
Read → Jun 2026Your Company May Already Be Failing. You Just Haven't Seen It Yet.
Read → Apr 2026Rethinking Governance, Risk and Compliance in a Digitally Enabled Organisation
Read → Mar 2026The Boardroom Blindspot & Stewardship Gap: Digital Governance & Resilience
Read → Nov 2025Zero Trust: Transforming Security in a Distrustful Era
Read →CONTACT
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