Raghunath Seshadri is a senior technology and transformation leader with over three decades of experience guiding complex change across global financial institutions—often in environments where the stakes are high, timelines are compressed, and outcomes carry lasting institutional consequence.
Over the course of his career, he has advised more than 80 banks and financial institutions across 50+ countries, working across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, North America, and Australia. Based in Dubai for the past two decades, his work has unfolded in delivery command centres, strategy rooms, and transformation war rooms—supporting programmes where success was measured not in launch milestones, but in customer trust, regulatory confidence, and operational resilience.
Raghunath has held senior delivery, product, and technology leadership roles at organisations including Temenos, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Cognizant, and ABN AMRO, and later served in C-suite technology roles across leading banks in the Gulf region. His work has been recognised through industry awards, including the Temenos Golden Key Award, the Cognizant CEO Award, and the HP Master Solution Award.
His leadership philosophy was shaped less by accolades than by lived experience—situations where sponsorship weakens, organisational resistance surfaces quietly, architecture strains under pressure, and leadership hesitation erodes momentum faster than any technical failure.
From these experiences emerged S-TOS™ (the Seshadri Transformation Operating System™), a leadership-driven operating model designed not for presentation decks, but for sustained execution under real-world pressure. These ideas also underpin CTO Catalyst™, his leadership accelerator for mid- and senior-career professionals preparing to lead transformation with clarity and conviction.
He is the author of Breaking the Legacy Code: How Leaders Build Digital-First Institutions—a practitioner’s field guide for leaders who value discipline over theatre, and execution over declarations.
Outside the boardroom and delivery floor, Raghunath is often found riding long stretches of open road on a motorcycle—where, as in transformation, balance is not a slogan, but a condition for survival.