2011 Pinnacle Awardee
President, Standard & Poor’s
Deven Sharma was named president of Standard & Poor’s, the leading credit ratings company and a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies in 2007. Mr. Sharma joined Standard & Poor’s in 2006 as executive vice president, Investment Services and Global Sales. Before joining Standard & Poor’s, he was executive vice president, Global Strategy at The McGraw-Hill Companies for five years.
Mr. Sharma joined The McGraw-Hill Companies in January 2002 from Booz Allen Hamilton, a global management consulting company, where he was a partner. During his 14 years with that firm, he provided guidance to client companies on business strategy and globalization, as well as on branding and sales management. Much of his experience includes work with global corporations in the U.S., Latin America, Europe and parts of Asia. Before joining Booz Allen, Mr. Sharma worked with manufacturing companies, Dresser Industries and Anderson Strathclyde.
Mr. Sharma holds a bachelor’s degree from the Birla Institute of Technology in India, a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and a doctoral degree in Business Management from Ohio State University.
He has authored several publications on competitive strategy, customer solutions, sales and marketing. He is chairman of the Board of Directors for CRISIL, a Standard & Poor’s company and India’s leading ratings, research, risk and policy advisory company.
Mr. Sharma is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Advisory Board of the British-American Business Council and serves on the Asia Society Business Council.