Prasanth Shanthakumaran

Prior to joining KPMG in India, he was the Vice President in Mahindra Satyam (later Tech Mahindra). He was based out of U.K. for over eight years to initially head the Process consulting division for EMEA region and later to lead the initiatives in Telecom and Media sector for U.K. and Ireland. His initial stint in the firm involved consulting engagements for Japanese firms while being based out of Tokyo. He was also head of SQAG at Cognizant Technology and led the process improvement function for Technology at Ramco Systems.

He has been involved in business activities in over 25 countries and has undertaken challenging assignments covering IT projects, process improvement, testing, customer centricity and VOC related projects for over 100 clients.

Prasanth has authored multiple papers on strategic planning and process improvement including an award-winning paper selected on the topic ‘Audit planning to process improvement – an automated journey’. He is a lead auditor for ISO 9000 and also helped organisations adopt CMMI and other process improvement benchmarks. For all third-party names in this document, please run Sentinel relationship query to ascertain if they are our clients. If they are a client, please seek approval from the Client Lead Partner.

He was selected to be one of the key members for the SEPG conference in Pittsburgh organised by CMMI Institute. He is also regular speaker in multiple national and International events including Unicom, SPINLONDON, CII, NASSCOM, SEPGs in Europe and USA.

Prasanth holds a B Tech in Applied Electronics and Instrumentation from College of Engineering Trivandrum.

Areas of Expertise: Strategy, IT Service Management, Process Consulting and Quality Assurance.