Sectors:
TechnologySazz Ariyanayagam
Biography
Sazz Ariyanayagam is a Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, specializing in leading transformations, facilitating organizational alignments, and driving initiatives that deliver accelerated revenue growth and strong operating results. He primarily serves technology, media, industrial enterprises, and private equity-owned portfolio companies. With 15 years of experience, Ariyanayagam helps senior executives and company boards drive sustainable revenue growth and profitability.
Ariyanayagam has deep expertise in all aspects of revenue growth including but not limited to go-to-market strategy, sales force effectiveness, pricing excellence, digital transformation and solution selling.
Prior to FTI Consulting, Ariyanayagam was a leader in the Commercial Excellence Practice at EY. While there, he led long-term international revenue growth programs across technology, media, and industrial sectors. Notable client service engagements while at EY include Diebold Nixdorf, Rackspace, Adobe, Lyft, NetApp, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Lucasfilm, Scripps Networks, Pearson Education, ADP and Caterpillar.
Before EY, Ariyanayagam spent time at A.T. Kearney’s Strategy and Private Equity practice. There, he led multiple revenue growth programs across the spirits industry, professional services and communications sectors. Select client service engagement during this time include Beam Suntory, Coca-Cola, West Communications, Economic Club of Chicago and CSX Rail.
A thought leader in the industry, Ariyanayagam has authored several articles on revenue growth throughout the years.
Ariyanayagam holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication from Anna University and an MBA in international management from Arizona State University.
Area of Expertise
– Industries: Telecom, Media & Technology (TMT), Diversified Industrials
– Performance Improvement
– Revenue Enhancement
– Pricing Strategy
– Revenue Enhancement
Group Overview
FTI Technology experts work alongside their clients’ privacy, legal, IT, and executive teams to understand the values and risks of data, as well as regulatory requirements and security obligations. As cloud-based data storage continues to proliferate, new communications platforms are adopted, and multi-jurisdictional regulations emerge, they provide defensible and repeatable solutions to address the specific needs of their global clients in the Technology, Telecom, and Media sectors.
FTI’s global teams are adept at addressing data risks and creating value for their clients’ organizations. They provide the expertise to run coordinated, international e-discovery efforts for investigation and litigation, as well as investigate the misappropriation of confidential information.
Firm Overview
Over the last 40 years, FTI Consulting has grown to become a market-leading global consulting firm that brings together distinct capabilities and experts to serve as the trusted advisor to clients when they are facing their greatest opportunities and challenges. Each practice is a leader in its own right, staffed with experts recognized for the depth of their knowledge and a track record of making an impact. Collectively, FTI Consulting offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to assist clients across the business cycle—from proactive risk management to the ability to respond rapidly to unexpected crises and dynamic environments.
FTI Consulting, Inc. is a global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational and transactional. With more than 6,900 employees located in 30 countries, FTI Consulting professionals work closely with clients to anticipate, illuminate and overcome complex business challenges and make the most of opportunities.