Venkat is the Founder and CEO of Karkinos Healthcare and an Advisor to the Chairman, Reliance Industries Limited.

Prior to founding Karkinos, Venkat spent more than 15 years with the Tata Group in various capacities. His last assignment in the Tata Group was as the Managing Trustee of the Tata Trusts where he was responsible for the operations, oversight, and co-ordination of the Trusts’ development programs worth more than USD 1B. He was instrumental in the conceptualization of the Distributed Cancer Care Network and has led the development of multiple apex cancer hospitals across the country. He was a member of the Governing Board of multiple institutions such as Tata Medical Center, TISS, IISc and TIFR. Also, he was the Executive Director and CIO of RNT Capital Advisers which was a USD 350M fund with a portfolio of 15+ investments and Co-Founder of Avanti Finance – a new age fin-tech enterprise for financial inclusion. For several years, he served as an Executive Assistant to Mr. Ratan Tata, the former Chairman of the Tata Group where he was a part of several significant projects including the Tata Motors acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover, launch of the small car Nano and creation of several Joint Ventures. Prior to this, Venkat served as Head of Business Support at the Qatar Foundation, Doha, and Tata Communications.

Venkat is a Science and a Law graduate and has done his Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the Sri Satya Sai University, Puttaparthi. He has completed his Doctorate in Engineering (EngD) from WMG, University of Warwick, UK on the role of Technology in Health Care Systems. He is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program (AMP) from the Harvard Business School

Venkat is a member of Governing Council of Jio Institute, a multi-disciplinary higher education institute of eminence.