Sankar Krishnan
Chief Strategy Officer, Transient, A Nasdaq Portfolio Co.. Sankar Krishnan is Chief Strategy Officer at Transient.ai, where he leads corporate strategy, market positioning, and strategic partnerships focused on applying AI to institutional finance. He works with banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and financial-technology firms to identify high-value uses of AI across capital markets workflows, data operations, and decision support. Prior to joining Transient.ai, Sankar built a career spanning global banking, financial technology, and capital-markets strategy. His experience includes senior leadership roles at Citi, Standard Chartered, Carlyle, Capgemini with responsibilities across institutional client coverage, technology-led transformation, and growth initiatives. He brings particular expertise in connecting emerging technologies with the operational and commercial realities of complex financial institutions. At Transient.ai, Sankar helps shape the company’s go-to-market strategy, ecosystem partnerships, and engagement with senior financial-services leaders. His work centers on translating advances in AI into secure, scalable, and commercially relevant solutions that improve how institutions access information, automate workflows, and serve clients. Sankar is a published author The Power of Mobile Banking, Wiley 2014. A frequent contributor to financial media and voted top 10 in financial services consulting for two years in a row by the Consulting Report. He is an advisor and mentor to several startups and PEs.