Sri Manchala

Sri Manchala is the Chairman & CEO at Trianz and Trasers and the author of the book- Crossing the Digital Faultline. TRIANZ helps business and IT leaders develop strategies to transition into a Digital Enterprise leveraging digitalization, analytics, cloud infrastructures and security. Emphasizing that TRIANZ is driven by client execution success and business impact, Sri has overseen the growth of TRIANZ from a small office in Silicon Valley to a firm with Global 2000 clientele, 8 offices and 1500 associates worldwide. Sri's personal passion for strategy and execution began early in his career. As a graduate of the elite National Defense Academy and the Indian Military Academy, Sri was commissioned as an officer into the Indian Army. He was a Major and has served in the Infantry and a special forces unit of the Parachute Regiment. Joining the industry in 1994 Sri had a short stint at Asian Paints, India's largest paints manufacturer. After his MBA, Sri worked with KPMG in Silicon Valley and later had a stint at Cisco Systems at the company's headquarters in the information technology division. In 2017, Sri founded Trasers- a business research organization dedicated to developing fact based insights on digital and business transformations across industries. Throughout 2018 and 2019, Trasers conducted the worlds largest survey on digital transformations which received responses from over 9,200 leaders from 5,000+ companies across 16 industries. Trasers is independent of Trianz and provides research and advisory services to clients in understanding transformations, benchmarking their organizations, developing their transformation strategies and priorities using fact based insights. Sri serves on the Board of Advisors of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Sri has been a soccer player, an athlete and is a long distance runner. Sri and his family live in the Silicon Valley.