Stocks & Sips – Lunchtime Q&A with Sankar Narayan, CEO of SiteMinder

Held on 8 May 2025, 12:00 PM

Event Recap

Our first-ever Stocks & Sips event brought together clients, investors, and professionals at the new Sharewise office, co-hosted with Emajin Golf.

The session featured a live Q&A between SiteMinder CEO Sankar Narayan and Sharewise CEO Alex Perry, covering a wide range of topics including SiteMinder’s ASX journey, tech industry trends, the impact of COVID, market competition, and the role of AI in business.

Sankar emphasised that resilience has been the most important quality in leading through uncertainty — both personally and at the company level. The event offered meaningful insights, networking opportunities, and a strong sense of community for like-minded investors.

🗣️ About Sankar Narayan

For more than 20 years, Sankar Narayan has delivered change management, operational rigour and business growth across the travel, technology, media and telecommunications sectors, with particular expertise in company transformations and business strategy to achieve strong shareholder outcomes. Following several senior management roles at Virgin Australia, Fairfax Media and Foxtel, and having also worked at Vodafone Australia, Boston Consulting Group and Schlumberger prior, in 2015 Sankar joined Xero where he went on to serve in the dual capacity of Chief Operating and Financial Officer.

Today, Sankar leads SiteMinder’s internationalised software and multilingual teams across 20 locations globally, and which see more than 80% of revenue sourced from outside the company’s home market of Australasia.

Sankar holds a Masters in Business Administration with Honours from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York. He is a Certified Practising Accountant and a Fellow of CPA (Australia), and has been a regular contributor to Forbes.com on the crucial topics of strategy, disruption and managing high growth businesses.