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 P&L responsibility for
service businesses as well as global leadership responsibility. He has
worked with a number of financial ins...
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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 P&L 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.
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