Srinivasan Shanmuganathan

Chief Product Officer at DigitalAPI

About
Srinivasan Shanmuganathan

Srinivasan Shanmuganathan (Shan) is Chief Product Officer at DigitalAPI, where he leads product strategy and roadmap for the company’s API management platform, Developer Portal, API, and MCP Gateway. Fortune 500 enterprises use DigitalAPI to unify API discovery, governance, monetization, and AI agent enablement across Apigee, AWS, Azure, Kong, MuleSoft, and other gateway environments.

Based in Zürich, Shan brings 20+ years of enterprise product and technology leadership, with a strong focus on regulated industries. Before DigitalAPI, he held senior product and technology roles at Zurich Insurance, one of the world’s largest insurance groups, and Standard Chartered Bank, a global banking institution. In both organizations, he led API platform, digital, and modernization initiatives at scale across complex, compliance-bound environments.

Shan is a recognized speaker in the API and open banking community, including at Open APIs Innovation Asia. He writes frequently on agentic AI, Model Context Protocol (MCP), token economics for LLMs, API monetization, and how product teams ship faster with AI.

Specialization
API product strategy, open banking, regulated-industry APIs, agentic AI, and MCP
Education
B.E. in Electronics and Communications Engineering, Anna University
Languages
English, Tamil, Hindi
Expertise
20+ years in product and engineering; ex-Zurich Insurance, ex-Standard Chartered Bank; Open APIs Innovation Asia speaker

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