Sankar Narayan

Mr Narayan has delivered change management, operational rigour and business growth across the travel, technology, media and telecommunications sectors, with expertise in company transformations and business strategy to achieve strong shareholder outcomes for more than 20 years. He has been a regular contributor to Forbes.com on the crucial topics of strategy, disruption and managing high growth businesses. Following several senior management roles at Virgin Australia, Fairfax Media and Foxtel, and having also worked at Vodafone Australia, Boston Consulting Group and Schlumberger prior, in 2015 Sankar joined Xero where he went on to serve in the dual capacity of Chief Operating and Financial Officer. Today, Sankar leads SiteMinders software and multilingual teams across 20 locations globally, and which see more than 80 percent of revenue sourced from outside the Groups home market of Australasia.