CariCRIS - Caribbean Information and Credit Rating Services Limited

Prof (Dr.) Venkataraman Sankaranarayanan is currently part of the faculty in the Strategic Management group of the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, one of the premier management schools in India. His specialization includes Corporate Sustainability and International Business. An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Dr. Sankaranarayanan has also been a visiting scholar at Cornell University, USA. Dr. Sankaranarayanan was formerly a Senior Director at CRISIL Ltd, the largest rating agency in India and a subsidiary of the globally-recognized rating agency Standard & Poor’s. He was part of the core management team which decides and oversees implementation of all group-wide strategies covering business and key stakeholder relations and a member of CRISIL’s Rating/ Grading Committee. Over a span of 20 years, Dr. Sankaranarayanan led various businesses within CRISIL and garnered extensive experience in credit ratings, advisory services, equity grading’s, risk management, credit risk models, business restructuring, valuation, infrastructure privatization, securitization and corporate governance evaluation. He has been closely involved with CariCRIS, having served as its founding Chief Executive Officer and Chief Rating Officer of CariCRIS from 2004-2007.