Kumutha Ramanathan

Kumutha Ramanathan is the founder and CEO of The Summit Group, a strategic communications and PR consultancy serving founders, executives, and growth-stage companies. Before building her own firm, she spent over 15 years as an international financial journalist with Bloomberg News, BNN Bloomberg, CBC, CTV News, and Yahoo Finance UK, reporting from Toronto, New York, and London, and holds a master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School.

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That newsroom background is her defining edge as an advisor: Kumutha spent her career deciding which companies and founders were worth covering, and now brings that same editorial judgment to help early-stage founders build media strategies that actually land. Her clients have secured national and international placements within their first month of working together.She serves clients across two tracks, enterprise/tech and solopreneur/small business.

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She remains an active macroeconomics speaker, professional moderator for organizations including Deloitte, and freelance contributor to The Canadian Press's "Your Money" column.At DMZ, Kumutha works with founders, helping them navigate regulatory shifts, funding milestones, and achieve the media visibility that often determines whether investors and customers take a new company seriously before its founder ever picks up the phone.