Banking
Navigating multi-entity complexity, managing cloud caution, and modernizing finance platforms under strict regulatory scrutiny.
Advisory & Technology Transformations
Strategy without execution is just a deck.
Ketana partners with CFOs, CIOs, and government leaders to close the gap between strategy and operational reality — with deep focus on banking, government, and hi-tech.
Industry focus
Focused where transformation stakes are highest.
Ketana Consulting is primarily focused on banking, government, and hi-tech because these sectors combine complexity, scrutiny, modernization pressure, and the need for executive-grade transformation narratives.
Government
Accelerating public-sector modernization, securing fiscal platforms, and ensuring citizen & workflow continuity.
Hi-Tech
Driving operating scale, modernizing data foundations, and accelerating high-stakes executive decision support.
Select clients
Trusted in complex transformation environments.
Ketana Consulting brings experience across enterprise, finance, technology, and public-sector programs where execution quality, accountability, and modernization outcomes matter.
Equinix
Apple
M&T Bank
Airport Company
of South Africa
of South Africa
Majid Al Futtaim
Capability focus
Capabilities organized around the decisions leaders need to make.
Ketana Consulting organizes its capabilities around the outcomes that matter to finance and technology leaders: reliable finance operations and compliance, cloud-ready platforms, resilient operations, trusted data, and AI use cases that improve real workflows.
Advisory
Delivering unified executive agendas and clear, risk-mitigated transformation roadmaps.
CFO Transformation
Securing accelerated reconciliation, audit-ready close cycles, streamlined multi-GAAP and intelligent FP&A.
CIO Transformation
Modernizing regulated platforms, cloud infrastructure, architectures and service operations.
Data Modernization
Building single sources of truth with highly governed, auditable, and compliant information flows.
Change & Execution
Providing continuous program stabilization and guaranteed transformation adoption.
AI Factory
Pre-built, compliance-ready AI frameworks for banking, government, and hi-tech — governed and regulator-ready.
Why Ketana Consulting
Built for complex environments. Engineered for decisive action.
Organizations choose Ketana Consulting because we combine deep technical architecture with elite advisory execution. We don't just hand over strategies; we deploy integrated, cross-functional teams to carry high-stakes programs all the way through implementation in environments where complexity cannot be simplified away.
Top-Tier Expertise, Embedded in Your Team
We bring former Big 4 partners and enterprise transformation leaders who've delivered 100+ mission-critical programs — and we stay embedded through delivery, not just advisory.
Global Experience. Local Execution.
Our teams have delivered across banking, government, and hi-tech in the US, Middle East, Asia, and Africa — bringing cross-market pattern recognition that accelerates your roadmap and de-risks execution in ways purely domestic firms simply can't.
Obsessed With Solution Integrity.
We don't ship incomplete work or hand off strategy decks. Every engagement is held to rigorous quality standards — from advisory and transformation architecture through production cutover — with milestone-based sign-offs at every phase.
Leadership
Leadership aligned to enterprise credibility and market access.
The leadership bench is intentionally shaped around founding continuity, advisory depth, transformation leadership, and senior external relationships across priority sectors and markets.
Founder & Managing Partner
Pranava Sistla
Leads enterprise vision, transformation architecture, and AI strategy. Flagship focus on CFO and CIO transformations across banking, government, and technology.
- 20 years architecting financial, data, and AI transformation programs across 30+ global organizations — $75M+ in cumulative implementation value.
- Centralized finance operations across 1,800 legal entities in 40 countries; unified 30+ disparate ERPs into a single Chart of Accounts framework; rescued a failing $20M government cloud transformation; reduced a Senate budget cycle by 4 months; led a 1,500% scope gap recovery saving a $35M engagement.
- Principal designer of the Ketana AI Factory — 9 production-ready AI solutions for regulated financial institutions and government entities; factory framework architecture, components, and strategy with IFRS 9, FATF, IPSAS, ECCB, BOJ, and QFC compliance engineered natively into architecture.
- MS Engineering, University of Michigan (100% research scholarship); Researched & published 2 international papers (Advanced Numerical Methods & Design of Experiments); articles submitted to HBR and World Bank/IDB (in review); speaker at Thomson Reuters and Oracle Cloud conferences.
Leader — Government & Strategic Relationships
Tamim Suyyagh
Leads strategic partnerships and executive-level stakeholder engagement, and market access with government institutions and sovereign entities at Ketana.
- 25+ years of senior leadership at Shell across chemicals, LNG, upstream operations, and corporate affairs — spanning the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
- Sustained engagement with Ministries, Royal Courts, Ambassadors, and World Bank/IMF officials — securing Shell's first oil shale concession with the Jordanian government and protecting $40M+ in commercial interests.
- Led a $200M annual chemicals trading operation and negotiated multi-party asset divestments delivering 50% cost reductions in politically complex environments.
- BEng Chemical Engineering, McGill University; Executive Education — IFP/ESCP, LSE, and Harvard Business School.
Leader — Core Technology & AI Architecture
Smita Pasumarti
Leads core platform design, integration frameworks, and AI solution architecture — from strategy to deployment at Ketana.
- 30+ years inside enterprise systems. Led delivery teams of 200+ across manufacturing, healthcare, banking, energy, retail, and life sciences in EMEA, APJ, and NAM.
- Signature engagements include a global payments platform ($16M; 96 countries, 5x shipping-cost reduction), a leading home retail brand ($20M; +25% retention), an energy major ($18M), a dental benefits provider ($12M; 99% compliance), a top-tier bank ($8M; 50% onboarding productivity, 25 legacy apps retired), and a cybersecurity leader (key generation cut from 45 days to 30 minutes).
- Proven AI in production — demand sensing cutting stockouts 20% for a global retailer, employee copilots delivering 40% faster IT resolution for a payments platform.
- NVIDIA-Certified in Generative AI across LLMs, Multimodal, and AI Infrastructure, building on AWS, Azure, and NVIDIA.
Leader — Program Strategy, Roadmap & PMO
Dr Carsten Tautz
Leads program strategy, delivery roadmaps, structures large-scale enterprise programs, and PMO governance for complex transformations at Ketana.
- 30+ years in enterprise program and PMO leadership — including Abu Dhabi government digitization at ministry scale.
- At Abu Dhabi's Department of Municipalities and Transport, reduced critically delayed projects by 75% in one year, trained 150+ project managers, and consolidated all municipal IT departments into a centralized sector of 300+ staff.
- Re-engineered 322 municipal services onto Abu Dhabi's central TAMM platform. Member, PMO Global Awards Judging Committee since 2020.
- PhD Computer Science, Technical University of Kaiserslautern; AI Strategy, MIT Sloan; PMP, PMI-PMOCP, and AIPM certified.
Partnerships
Partnerships that strengthen delivery and market credibility.
Our partnership model ensures enterprise delivery breadth and platform access. We combine deep ecosystem experience with various partners alongside strategic technical alignment across Oracle, AWS, and Azure platforms.
Oracle
AWS
Azure
Fujitsu North America
De-Risk Your Next Transformation.
In an executive briefing, we'll map your current constraints, surface the top transformation risks, and outline pragmatic next steps.