He replaced Jes Staley as the group chief executive (CEO) of the British multinational bank Barclays in November 2021.
[2][3] He earned bachelor's, master's and PhD degrees in operations research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[4][5] His 1991 thesis was entitled "Analysis and Optimization of Terminal Area Air Traffic Control Operations".
[1] He joined Barclays in 2016 as chief risk officer, before becoming head of global markets and co-president of BBPLC in October 2020.
[1] Venkat left JPMorgan for Barclays in early 2016, and was among the first people Staley hired when he became CEO of the bank.