Sankar Virdhagriswaran is a Partner in the Financial Services practice. Leveraging his start-up experience and deep background in cognitive and big data technologies, he is helping drive value driven, transformational and quick start engagements for the Cognitive Solutions Practice. A published author in referred journals and presenter in several industry conferences, Sankar is focused on driving innovation for his clients through persistent engagement with all stake holders to advise, engage, and produce value that is competitively different and better than any other team can deliver.   He has driven life insurance transformation projects that have results in several hundred million in risk identification, transformation of digital life insurance underwriting process, and others using AI and analytics. In one word, Sankar enjoys being an entrepreneur and brings that orientation to all his engagements.