Venkat Raju

Summary

Serial Entrepreneur and Corp Executive with deep business, technology and GM experience. Silicon Valley Entrepreneur & CEO | Wall Street Executive | CTO, Product Mgmt & Engineering Leadership at F500 & tech companies in the U.S & UK | Strategy Consultant in the U.S | MD & CEO of tech companies, India. * Current (since '17): Partner at select Funds, Incubators, Accelerators | Angel Investor, Mentor & Advisor, Board Director to Startups | Advisor & Strategy Consultant to global corporations in Digital (and AI) Transformation & Corp Innovation * Recent Past (Bangalore): CEO of a Corp Acceleration Provider enabling startup-led innovations for multinationals (exit to global Accelerator in 2017). Country Head of a multinational payments co; responsible for R&D, Product Management & (APAC) Services. * Consulting Phase (New York):Principal owner of a strategy/management consulting company enabling global corporations transform their business models with emerging technologies & trends. * Entrepreneurial Phase (Palo Alto/SFO):Co-founder & CEO of two venture-backed software product companies - one in the Datacenter space; the other in Consumer Internet. SVP Products at a public corp. in the ERP/Spend Management space. * Corporate Phase: MD level roles (Strategy, Business Ops, Tech, PMO) at leading (Investment Banking & Commercial) Banks. Led global teams (New York, London, Tokyo) across varied business units (Trading, Risk, Mid/Back Office Processing); multiple global programs; ownership over enterprise-wide roles (Data, IT Infra Mgmt & Service Delivery, Architecture, Operations). * Early career (Technologist Phase):Tech experience (programming; data comms) at a global high tech corp, Field Operations (analysis, service delivery support) for a payments company (New York), Product Development experience at a global (value added) network provider (Brussels). Specialties: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Startups, Financial Services, Telecom, Technology Architecture, Company Turn-arounds (& scaling), Management/Strategy Consulting, Mentoring/Advisory Services, Product Management, Venture Financing.