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Venkat Raju

7 portfolio companies indexed

Member of Indian Angles. 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 U.S & UK | Strategy Consultant in U.S | MD & CEO of tech companies, India.* 2017 - Present: Angel Investor, Mentor & Advisor to Startups | Board Director | Advisor & Strategy Consultant to global corporations in Digital Transformation & Corp Innovation.* 2010 - '17 (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.* 2005-'09 (New York):Principal owner of a strategy/management consulting company enabling clients to realize business value from emerging technologies - SaaS, (Hybrid) Clouds.* 1999-'05 (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 Mgmt space. *1990-'99 (New York): MD level roles (Strategy, Ops, IT, PMO) at leading (Investment Banking & Commercial) Banks. Led global teams (New York, London, Tokyo), Functional ownership (IT Infra Mgmt & Service Delivery, Architecture, Operations) & Enterprise-wide programs (Trading, Risk, Mid/Back Office Processing, STP, Outsourcing/Offshoring etc).*1983-'89: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.