About

Venkatesh Raman is a highly experienced technical project and program manager with over 17 years of success leading diverse technology projects. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Information Science from VTU and is currently serving as the Vice President at Morgan Stanley. Venkatesh is a business strategist who plans and manages large accounts, aligning customer business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, provide customer competitive advantage, and ensure account growth. He is an excellent communicator, leveraging technical, business, and financial acumen to communicate effectively with project sponsors, client executives, and their respective teams. Venkatesh is an expert in waterfall project management methodologies and is capable of managing large project teams. He is known for delivering high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets. With global exposure, Venkatesh has experience working with customers across the US, Singapore, Australia, and the UK. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Venkatesh served as the Vice President for Technology owner for Capital Markets at Citigroup Private Bank (CPB), where he had close ownership of the architecture team. He has a wide range of experience in building technology solutions for various private bank focus areas like Client Reporting, Client Onboarding, and Capital Markets. Venkatesh has proven expertise in leading teams on the design and development of large initiatives. He led the team to deliver a real-time distributed event processing framework based on ApacheStorm, Kafka, and GemFire for processing the Private Bank's capital markets trade events. Venkatesh is an expert in financial services and managed delivery for capital markets in CPB, including regulatory requirements like Volcker, FMIA, etc. He drove key system modernization initiatives for capital markets systems in CPB, envisioning the roadmap and tech stack for modernization of Adobe Flex-based UI in legacy applications with AngularJS and NodeJS. Venkatesh is a proven team and talent management professional, having managed large geographically distributed teams with a focus on high-quality customer service, improved margins, and efficient risk and capacity management. Venkatesh's technical skills include CI/CD, AngularJS, Docker, Kafka, Integration, UI, and NodeJS. With over 20.62 years of relevant experience, Venkatesh is a valuable asset to any organization.