Shruthi Shankel is an Associate Principal Analyst - IT Finance, Economics, Value & Risk Team at Gartner. Shruthi is responsible for developing research around Cybersecurity in Business Context, Business Value of IT and Digital Execution Scorecard. Her core area of research includes Capex Vs Opex treatment of Cloud Costs, Cybersecurity Outcome Driven Metrics, Cybersecurity Governance Framework. Framework and definitions of Digital Execution Scorecard. She also supports CIOs with their quest to achieve IT cost optimization, helps them demonstrate IT's value to the business and how to respond to recession & inflation and communicate business value of IT.
Prior to joining Gartner, Shruthi worked with Accenture Services Pvt Ltd for 5 years. Her role and expertise was in budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd, Senior Analyst, 5 years
EXL Services Pvt Ltd, Senior Associate, 1 years
Provide Strategic Business Leadership
Chartered Accountant
Communicating business value of cybersecurity to board executives
Communicating Business Value of IT to board executives
IT Cost Optimization
Benchmark IT spend
Cybersecurity outcome driven metrics and benchmarking