Dhanavanth Venkatesan — Co-Founder

A multifaceted IT Digital Leader with 20+ years of excellent track record in working in some of the most challenging and exciting digital transformation projects in wall street banks. With a very strong technical background I've played various roles from IT executive leader, IT Project manager, technical architect, solutions architect and a developer. Some of my recent projects include : - Global Digital platform for the CIB business: As Global IT Director for this project with 40+ team members we build a strategic digital platform with complete Origination, Distribution and Portfolio management of loans using Salesforce (Sales cloud, Community cloud, fully on Lightning and with Micro services integration ), Sharepoint Online, Azure and other Microsoft technologies. The application gives the senior business users a 360 degree view of the pipeline, risk and fee information using BI tools that integrates with Salesforce. Great user efficiencies built using Robotics (using UI Path) to automatically enter a booking memo generated from the Salesforce application feed into the middle office ACBS system. Key Strengths: - IT Digital Strategist/Leader with a passion for transforming technology and introducing innovative, cost effective global solutions. - Deep knowledge of cloud technologies and a passion for implementing digital and cloud with a pragmatic approach. Built top performance teams ground up. - Ability to create alignment across the organization to help deliver best in class solutions. - Outstanding communicator known for creating vision, championing concepts, and gaining trust of technical and business executives. Lead worldwide efforts to develop and introduce leading edge products.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on digital transformation and cloud solutions.

Location: New York City, United States

Experience: 22 yrs 5 mos

Skills

Digital Platform Development
Loan Management
Application Development
Project Leadership
Consulting
Technical Leadership

Career Highlights

20+ years in digital transformation projects.
Led large teams in complex banking environments.
Expert in cloud technologies and digital solutions.

Work Experience

BlueGamma

Founder and CEO (2 yrs 5 mos)

Venhar

Board Member (5 yrs 8 mos)

Blue5Green

Founder and CEO (7 yrs 8 mos)

Natixis

Executive Director, Head of Financing Technologies and Enterprise Solutions at Natixis Americas (1 yr 2 mos)

Executive Director, Head of Enterprise Solutions at Natixis Americas (2 mos)

Director, Head of Enterprise Solutions at Natixis Americas (2 yrs)

Senior Consultant (2 mos)

Lazard

Senior Technical Architect/Consultant (9 yrs 7 mos)

TCGIvega

Senior Systems Analyst (2 yrs 8 mos)

Education

Master of Computer Applications - MCA at Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli

Dhanavanth Venkatesan

Co-Founder

New York City, United States22 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years in digital transformation projects.
Led large teams in complex banking environments.
Expert in cloud technologies and digital solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on digital transformation and cloud solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Digital Platform DevelopmentLoan ManagementApplication DevelopmentProject LeadershipConsultingTechnical Leadership

Other Skills

Sharepoint OnlineMicrosoft stackAngular JSSharepointASP.NETC#JQueryBootstrapQlikviewCrystal ReportsVB.NETJ2EEBusiness AnalysisWeb ServicesCRM

About

Experience

22 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Bluegamma

Founder and CEO

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Princeton, NJ

Venhar

Board Member

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 8 mos · Princeton, NJ

Blue5green

Founder and CEO

Oct 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 8 mos · Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Natixis

4 roles

Executive Director, Head of Financing Technologies and Enterprise Solutions at Natixis Americas

Apr 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

Executive Director, Head of Enterprise Solutions at Natixis Americas

Promoted

Jan 2018 – Mar 2018 · 2 mos

Director, Head of Enterprise Solutions at Natixis Americas

Promoted

Dec 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs

Real Estate Finance Origination and Securitization Digital platform: This was an award winning application that I built with my team for the Real Estate Finance (REF) group to manage their end-to-end loan management. This involved Origination, management and securitization of REF loans. This is built using the Microsoft stack (Including Sharepoint Online ) and Angular JS. The Sharepoint online was used to connect the internal and external contributors (Like external legal and appraisal teams) to collaboratively work of REF loans.

Sharepoint OnlineMicrosoft stackAngular JSDigital platform developmentLoan management

Senior Consultant

Oct 2015 – Dec 2015 · 2 mos

Lazard

Senior Technical Architect/Consultant

Mar 2006 – Oct 2015 · 9 yrs 7 mos · Greater New York City Area

Played various roles as a senior consultant from senior developer, project lead and solution architect
Designed, architected and developed various global business applications to support ~4500 users
Responsible for design development of key SharePoint and .Net applications including CRM, Global Intranets, Management dashboards, Reporting engines and banker tools
Worked on various migrations/conversion projects from Lotus Notes to SharePoint 2013
Established enterprise level “Best Practices” for custom development projects
Improved cost and schedule projections for project delivery effectively utilizing proof of concepts methodology
Researched on various 3rd party tools, recommended and implemented them in various projects
Mentored and put processes in place for team members, which include off shore teams.
Resolved complex technology challenges including capacity planning, security and DR
Expert in troubleshoot issues and perform problem analysis and report back to the stakeholders
Technologies/tools/concepts: Sharepoint 2003/2010/2013, ASP.NET, C#, Angular JS, JQuery, Bootstrap, Qlikview, Crystal Reports, WCF,MVC, ADO.NET, LINQ, SharePoint custom workflows, Various 3rd party tools, Siteminder (SSO), Lotus Notes, SQL Server, Oracle

SharepointASP.NETC#Angular JSJQueryBootstrap+4

Tcgivega

Senior Systems Analyst

Jun 2003 – Feb 2006 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Greater New York City Area, Bangalore (India)

Worked on various consulting assignments in North America and India. Played various roles as Technical lead, Senior programmer and Onsite coordinator
Worked on some the major clients for TCGIvega listed below
> Lazard , New York (5 Months)
> Sterling Testing Systems, New York , Mumbai and Bangalore(11 months)
> Gerson Lehrman Group, New York and Bangalore (India) (10 Months)
> University of California, Los Angeles (3 Months)
> Nestle, Switzerland offshore in Bangalore (4 Months)
Coordinated with various stake holders to document Business and functional requirement and created functional, design, and technical specifications
Designed and implemented various .Net projects which enhanced the business productivity and solved business problems with automations and tools
Lead and mentored small and midsize team. Provided technical solutions, expertise, feedback to team members
Involved in Code review, Test results review and documentation
Prepared the test data and performed unit testing, integration testing and system functional testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge.
Technologies/tools/concepts: Sharepoint 2003, ASP.NET, VB.NET, J2EE, C#, Crystal Reports, WCF,MVC, ADO.NET, , SharePoint custom workflows, Various 3rd party tools, SQL Server, Oracle