Harsha Ramalingam is a senior advisor and executive coach at Boston Consulting Group. He coaches and advises senior leaders on ecommerce, artificial intelligence , digital platforms, and digital business transformation. He is also a faculty member of BCG University, teaching a course on AI Acceleration. Harsha has over 35 years of experience as a consumer and enterprise technology leader, helping businesses create value by identifying breakthrough or disruptive opportunities through technology.

Harsha serves as a non-executive director on the board of Valo Health, a private biotechnology startup. Prior to this, he was a non-executive director on the board of Bed Bath & Beyond until June 2021, and on the board of Intralinks Holdings, Inc. until it was acquired by Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. in January 2017. He also serves as a member of the Information Technology Advisory Board (ITAB) of the United Nations World Food Programme.

Harsha has held a variety of senior executive positions at leading technology companies. At Amazon, where he spent nearly seven years, he was global VP of Amazon's technology platforms and member of Amazon's consumer leadership team, reporting to the CEO of Amazon's worldwide consumer business. He led the eCommerce Platform, CIO, and CISO functions, globally, for all of Amazon and its subsidiaries. His responsibilities extended to building the platform that enables Amazon to transact, manage, and secure its businesses. Prior to Amazon, he was the founding VP of Technology, Products, and Operations of EMC's SaaS/Cloud Services business. His career prior to EMC includes leadership experience with startups as well as with mature pioneers such as IBM.

Harsha believes that the best products are built by paying close attention to customer experience, understanding their pain and problems, and then inventing on their behalf. He is a named inventor on over 65 issued United States patents. Harsha’s strength is in advising clients on AI, digital and agile transformation, leadership coaching and advisory services, strategic technology planning and operational excellence, and customer-centric disruptive business model innovation. He is a certified International Systemic Team Coach by the Academy of Executive Coaching, and a BCG certified executive coach.