Sree Sreenivasan
Sree Sreenivasan is an expert and scholar in digital communications based in New York City. He is CEO and co-founder of Digimentors, a digital, social and virtual & hybrid events consulting company.He has served as Chief Digital Officer of New York City, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Columbia University (where he was a full-time professor of journalism for 20+ years). He was the inaugural Marshall Loeb Visiting Professor of Digital Innovation and Audience Engagement at Stony Brook School of Communication and Journalism.
Since 2022, he has served on the board of Nobel Prize Foundation Outreach. In 1994, he co-founded SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Association, and in 1999, ONA, the Online Journalists Association.
In 2015, Fast Company named him one of the 100 most creative people in business and in 2010, he was named one of the 35 most influential people in social media by the Poynter Institute. In 2014, he was named the world's most influential CDO by CDO Club and, in 2004, one of the 20 most influential South Asians in America by Newsweek.
He has an MS in Journalism from Columbia University; a BA in History from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University; a high school diploma from Suva, Fiji; and a birth certificate from Tokyo. Sree lives in Manhattan with his wife, strategy executive Roopa Unnikrishnan, a fellow Indiaspora fan and winner of the Arjuna Award for rifle shooting, India’s equivalent of the sports hall of fame.
