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Venugopal Raghavan

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Global Head of Cloud & Compute Infrastructure at OLAM FOOD INGREDIENTS (OFI)
📍 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Venugopal is a global executive with over 25 years of experience leading cloud infrastructure and digital transformation at major companies like OLAM FOOD INGREDIENTS and General Motors. He specializes in cybersecurity, cost optimization, and modernizing complex IT systems. He holds an MBA from Hult International Business School and is a certified PMP.

He is passionate about leveraging technology to solve business challenges and has a strong interest in service innovation and effective leadership. Venugopal enjoys exploring how to build resilient teams that thrive on challenges and foster a culture of open dialogue to drive execution and positive results.

Unique fact: Venugopal was in the first-ever batch to become a Certified Service Innovation Professional.

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Current Role
Global Head of Cloud & Compute Infrastructure
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Personality Overview

How Venugopal shows up

Quality Focused
Demanding
Features Driven

More than the product, they care about the impact of the product. They respond well to strong and respectful communication. They prefer to be the ones controlling the conversation or defining the terms.

Priorities

Topics Venugopal cares about

Platform Engineering
He believes Platform Engineering is the backbone of modern cloud operations, balancing developer speed with governance and security.
Cloud & Cost Optimization
His career focuses on delivering cost-optimized, secure, and resilient cloud platforms, including large-scale migrations to SAP on Azure.
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Career

Work history

Global Head of Cloud & Compute Infrastructure
OLAM FOOD INGREDIENTS (OFI)
Director of IT Cloud & Security, North America
OLAM FOOD INGREDIENTS (OFI)
Senior Infrastructure Consultant / Project Manager
Mizkan America
Senior Infrastructure Project Manager, Hosting Delivery, OnStar
General Motors
Assistant General Manager | R&D Engineer | Project Manager
Samba Financial Group
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Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Hult International Business School
Bachelor of Engineering - BE
University of Madras
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Dominance (D)

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