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Venkat Iyer

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Executive Director at Wells Fargo
📍 New York City Metropolitan Area, United States

Venkat is a transformation leader and Executive Director at Wells Fargo with over 20 years of experience in quantitative analytics, finance, and risk management. Holding a PhD from Purdue and an MBA from The University of Chicago, he leads teams in commercial credit risk modeling and ESG initiatives.

He is passionate about empowering underserved communities, recently leading a global fellowship project with Bankers without Borders and GRID Alternatives. The team developed innovative financing strategies to bring clean energy solutions to low-income and Tribal communities, bridging mission-driven work with banking frameworks.

Unique fact: Venkat leads the development of climate change scenario analysis models as part of Wells Fargos key ESG initiatives.

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Experience
24 Years
Current Role
Executive Director
Job Level
Senior
Location
New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
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Credit Risk Modeling
He heads the development of commercial credit risk models at Wells Fargo, leading a global team of quantitative specialists and championing the use of big data and ML.
Climate & ESG Finance
His current role includes leading climate change scenario analysis for Wells Fargo's ESG initiatives, a key emerging area of risk and opportunity in banking.
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Career

Work history

4-2020
Executive Director
Wells Fargo
5-2015 - 4-2020
Sr. Director, SVP, forecasting and analytics
Santander US
5-2013 - 5-2015
Director of Model Risk management - GE Capital
GE
1-2010 - 5-2013
Commercial Risk Leader
GE
5-2005 - 12-2009
Staff Engineer/Technologist - Aviation
GE
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Education
2008 - 2011
MBA
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
1996 - 2001
PhD
Purdue University
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