Venkataraman Balasubramanian

Who is Venkataraman Balasubramanian?

Venkataraman Balasubramanian, also known as Bala, is a senior executive

with extensive experience in servicing the needs of financial

institutions globally. His general management experience includes three

years at Reuters, nine years at IBM and almost 10 years at Citigroup

(Shearson Lehman Brothers). He has held PL responsibility for

service businesses as well as global leadership responsibility. He has

worked with a number of financial institutions in the US (HSBC, NASDAQ,

Citigroup, Chase, Wells Fargo etc) in consulting and services roles as

well as with a number of banks and financial institutions across Asia

Pacific and Northern Europe (UK, France, Germany and Switzerland). Most

recently, Bala was the Senior Vice President, Partners and Global

Alliances, at Reuters Americas, LLC. In this role, Bala was responsible

for defining and implementing the process, programs and expertise to

drive partnering and strategic alliances into a core competence within

Reuters globally. His team was responsible for enabling access to new

markets and new revenue opportunities through over 450 partners

globally, including managing globally Services Partners such as

Accenture, IBM, Infosys and Tata. Bala received his BS degree in

Mechanical Engineering from U.V. College of Engineering in 1980, an MBA

in Management from Indian Institute of Management (I.I.M.) in Bangalore

in 1982, and a Masters in Project Management from George Washington

University in 1998.