Who Is C. S. Venkatakrishnan? Meet The Man Who Replaced Joe Staley As Barclays CEO
Sundararajan Venkatakrishnan, also known as Venkat, is a banker from Coimbatore. Venkatakrishnan will succeed Jes Staley as the group CEO of the British multinational bank Barclays in November 2021.
Venkat was born in January 1966 in Mysore, India. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology awarded Venkatakrishnan bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in operations research. “Analysis and Optimization of Terminal Area Air Traffic Control Operations,” was the title of Venkatakrishnan’s 1991 thesis.
From 1994 to 2016, Venkat worked for JPMorgan Chase, where he held senior positions in asset management, investment banking, and risk, eventually rising to the position of chief investment officer for global fixed income, with responsibility for approximately $200 billion in assets. Venkatakrishnan joined Barclays in 2016 as chief risk officer before becoming head of global markets and co-president of BBPLC in October 2020.
Venkat lives in New York City. In November 2022, Venkatakrishnan was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and continued to work while undergoing treatment.