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Sankar Narayan

Sankar Narayan

CEO and Managing Director

For more than 20 years, Sankar Narayan has delivered change management, operational rigour and business growth across the travel, technology, media and telecommunications sectors, with particular expertise in company transformations and business strategy to achieve strong shareholder outcomes.

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 SiteMinder, the name behind SiteMinder, the only software platform that unlocks the full revenue potential of hotels.

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