Before joining DriveWealth, he served as Managing Director at Patomak Global Partners, where he advised clients on business and regulatory strategy, risk management, and compliance solutions in the securities, commodities, fintech, and cryptocurrency spaces. He has also held various other leadership roles within the industry, including as the CCO and co-COO of Dash Technologies, a Managing Director at Tagomi, the CEO of broker-dealers at Virtu Financial, and CEO of Nasdaq's equities, options, and treasuries broker-dealers.

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Venu earned dual degrees in Economics and Computer Science from BITS

Pilani and an MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Venu holds FINRA Series 7, 14, 24, 27 (FINOP), and 63 licenses.