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Madhu Ranganathan

Corporate director

 

Independent Director since: 2021 

Brings more than 30 years of financial leadership experience, a strategic mindset with global industry expertise and deep operational focus in software, hardware and tech-enabled services, as well as a demonstrable track record of leading and supporting business transformation initiatives, strategic acquisitions and global capital raising. 

 

Residence: Saratoga, California, United States 

 

Board Committees

Member of Audit and Conduct Review Committee

 

Business experience

  • President, Chief Financial Officer & Corporate Development, OpenText (April 2018 to March 2025) 
  • Chief Financial Officer of [24]7.ai, a global customer experience software and services company (June 2008 to March 2018) 
  • Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Rackable Systems, Inc., a provider of server and storage equipment for large scale data centers (December 2005 to May 2008) 
  • Redback Networks, Inc. a global provider of advanced telecommunications networking equipment (August 2002 to November 2005) 
  • Jamcracker, Inc., an enterprise web services platform company (January 2000 to August 2002) 
  • BackWeb Technologies Inc., a “push” technology software provider for e-business solutions (December 1996 to January 2000) 
  • Price Waterhouse LLP (April 1995 to December 1996) 
  • Grant Thornton LLP (January 1994 to April 1995) 
  • Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (November 1989 to June 1993)

Areas of expertise

Accounting and finance / Technology and information security / Mergers and acquisitions / Strategic planning

 

Other public company boards (last five years)

  • Akamai Technologies (since June 2019) (Finance Committee, Audit Committee Chair) 
  • ServiceSource International, Inc. (2017 to 2019)
  • TriNet Group Inc. (since September 2025)

Service and recognition

  • Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants 
  • Member, Institute of Chartered Accountants, India 
  • Member, Institute of Cost & Management Accountants, India 
  • Frequent speaker at forums for finance leadership and women’s empowerment

Education

  • M.B.A (Finance), University of Massachusetts 
  • B.S. Accounting, University of Madras, India 
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