Sharon Biran

Sharon Biran is a Senior Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Financial Services practice. Drawing on three decades as an industry operator and advisor, Ms. Biran helps global financial institutions, including broker-dealers, wealth and asset managers and financial infrastructure providers, modernize and transform their businesses, launch new products, strengthen governance and controls and manage risk. She advises C-suite executives and boards of directors through periods of heightened scrutiny from regulators and investors, especially as the industry adopts AI and digital assets and faces cyber threats.

Ms. Biran combines financial services industry experience as an executive leading various functions with consulting expertise. She has led strategic reviews, portfolio optimizations and divestitures, structured and negotiated complex strategic transactions and led portfolios of transformation programs responding to new regulatory requirements, including recovery and resolution planning. She has also built and scaled consulting businesses, owned profit and loss (“P&L”) portfolios and led global high-performance teams.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Ms. Biran served as Managing Director, Chief Client Officer and Executive Committee member at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (“DTCC”), where she was responsible for global client strategy, commercial models and client-facing functions. Previously, she was a Managing Director and Global Client Lead at Accenture and held executive positions at UBS Investment Bank. She also led a firmwide client data transformation program at JPMorgan Chase and began her career as a capital markets practitioner at Andersen Consulting. Ms. Biran earned her B.S. in Finance from the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed the Advanced Management Program at Columbia Business School.

Ms. Biran received the 2025 Women in Finance Award from Markets Media for Excellence in Client Service.

Relevant Experience:

• Designed and implemented DTCC’s global client operating model and led the design and implementation of the firm’s first generative AI capability
• Led a firm-wide client data transformation program at JPMorgan Chase that implemented the first unified client identifier and consolidated client and account platform in the industry