Sathish Muthukrishnan

Chief Information, Data and Digital Officer at Ally Financial

Speaker

Sathish Muthukrishnan was named chief information, data and digital officer for Ally Financial Inc. in December 2019. In this role, Muthukrishnan is responsible for advancing Ally’s technical and digital capabilities, including customer experience, data & analytics, cyber security and infrastructure, and accelerating the company’s growth and evolution as a leader in the digital financial services sector. He reports to Ally’s CEO.

Muthukrishnan has been nationally recognized as a leader focused on digital transformation and emerging technology. In 2024, he was named Innovator of the Year by American Banker, inducted into the CIO Hall of Fame, and joined the Forbes CIO Next list for technology executives guiding their organizations into a new era. His teams have been honored multiple times by the CIO 100 and CSO 50 for top technology projects that demonstrate outstanding innovation, leadership and business value.

Prior to joining Ally, Muthukrishnan held several senior technology leadership roles with substantial scale and global reach, and previously served as the chief digital and information officer for Honeywell Aerospace, a $14 billion business within Honeywell International. He has more than 20 years of technology leadership experience in complex businesses with high availability and reliability requirements on their technology. He spent 10 years in financial services with American Express prior to joining Honeywell.

Muthukrishnan graduated from University of Madras with a degree in engineering, specializing in computer science. He is a member of the Advisory Board of WIT International and was recipient of the Chairman’s Award for Innovation at American Express. He joined the Board of Directors at BRP Group, Inc in 2023. Muthukrishnan has more than 25 filed patents in the manufacturing, payments and digital technology space.