Ramesh Shanmuganathan is Chief Executive Officer of John Keells IT, Chief Executive Officer at John Keells X and Group Chief Information Officer & Executive VP at John Keells Holdings PLC. He is also on the board of a few companies.

He has over 25 years of experience, with 20+ years at the C-level with an operational footprint covering territories such as USA, UK, Nordics, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Australia and SEA working together with industry leaders such as McKinsey, Deloitte, Gartner, E&Y, PwC, KPMG, SAP, Microsoft, Cisco, Siemens, IBM, UIPath, etc in transforming organizations for the Data Driven, Experience economy.

He received an MBA from Postgraduate Institute of Management, an undergraduate degree from the University of Moratuwa, a graduate degree from Rochester Institute of Technology and a graduate degree from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.