Bala Venkatrao named CEO for October

Balakrishna (Bala) Venkatrao is an experienced technologist and an entrepreneurial business leader, with a penchant for innovation and execution. He is interested in pursuing exciting opportunities in the cloud computing industry. Bala is currently at CA Inc, working on projects related to strategy, portfolio optimization\, venture/innovation fund and emerging technologies. Prior to CA, Bala worked as a consultant at the Parthenon Group, where he primarily worked with venture capital/PE firms, supporting portfolio companies on their strategic and operational issues. Bala has also worked for several years as microprocessor architect at Sun Microsystems. He has 2 issued patents and six research publications to his credit. Bala holds an MBA from MIT Sloan\, where he was an executive leader of the MIT Innovation Club and the South Asia Business Club. He holds a master's degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) and completed his undergraduate engineering from University of Mumbai, India