Bengaluru, 10 th June 2026: Gnani.ai, India’s full-stack sovereign Voice AI platform, announced the appointment of Sriraman Ranganathan as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). In this role, Sriraman will lead the company’s financial strategy and operations, helping strengthen the financial foundation required to support Gnani.ai’s next phase of growth and global expansion.
Sriraman will be responsible for overseeing the company’s finance function, including financial planning and analysis, corporate governance, compliance, capital allocation, risk management, and strategic growth initiatives. He will work closely with the leadership team to drive operational excellence, support business scalability, and enable long-term value creation.
Sriraman brings over two decades of experience spanning startups and multinational organizations across the manufacturing, automotive, IT services, and SaaS sectors. His expertise covers strategic finance, corporate finance, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), mergers and acquisitions, strategic transactions, and corporate restructuring, with a strong track record of aligning financial strategy with broader business objectives. Throughout his career, he has led key initiatives including IPO readiness, corporate restructuring programs, the establishment of shared services centers, and strategic exit processes, supporting founders through company sales, financial and legal preparedness, data room management, and due diligence activities.
Prior to joining Gnani.ai, Sriraman served as Chief Financial Officer at Veersa Technologies. Before that, he spent nearly five years at Freshworks, where he held senior leadership positions including Senior Director Finance and Director Finance, playing a key role during a period of significant growth and expansion. Earlier, he served as Vice President Finance (CFO) at DataTracks for over seven years, helping scale the company’s global SaaS operations. His professional journey also includes finance leadership roles at Amalgamations Valeo Clutch Private Limited, Saint-Gobain Group in India, Hindustan Colas Private Limited, and Indian Railways.
As demand for agentic AI, voice AI, and enterprise automation continues to grow, Sriraman’s extensive experience in scaling high-growth technology companies will play a key role in strengthening Gnani.ai’s financial strategy.
About Gnani.ai
Gnani.ai is India’s full-stack sovereign Voice AI platform, developing its entire AI stack in-house: STT (trained on 1M+ hours across 1,056 domains), TTS (12 Indic languages), a proprietary 14B parameter speech-to-speech foundation model, and an agentic platform spanning voice automation, live agent assist, voice biometrics, call quality intelligence, and avatar-based interactions. The company processes over 30 million voice AI calls daily, serves 200+ enterprise clients across BFSI, telecom, insurance, automotive, healthcare, and government, and is one of organisations selected under the Government of India’s IndiaAI Mission for sovereign foundational AI development. Founded in 2016 by Ganesh Gopalan and Ananth Nagaraj, Gnani.ai is headquartered in Bengaluru, India. www.gnani.ai
