Venkatesh (venki) Iyer

Current

• Partner at Vyaktitva

Past

• President and Chief Operating Officer at NIIT SmartServe
• Sr Vice president at NIIT Ltd.

Education

• Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Connections

228 connections

Industry

Management Consulting

Venkatesh (venki) Iyer’s Summary

R Venkatesh Iyer (Venki) graduated from IIM Ahmedabad in 1982 and joined NIIT Ltd. He was a core member of the initial team that established the company and made it a force to reckon with. Venki’s association with NIIT continued till 2005 by which time he had accumulated many feathers in his cap. He was instrumental in setting up the distribution/franchising channel for NIIT and headed it for many years. During the 23 years at NIIT, Venki has always been regarded as someone who can deliver whatever may be the odds. This reputation led to Venki being asked to handle the toughest of assignments year after year. Some of them were Global Head of Education, Regional Head of Software Services, Global Head of Human Resources, Head of NIIT Ventures, President and COO of NIIT SmartServe, the BPO subsidiary of NIIT.

Venki has a perfect blend of Business orientation and People focus and is driven by the desire to help organizations become strategically focused, high performance, high quality and profitable corporations. Venki brings with himself unique combination of scientific outlook and creative orientation to problem solving. His consulting assignments focus on making a business impact while leveraging people’s performance and potential.

Venkatesh (venki) Iyer’s Specialties:

Vyaktitva is a Performance Consulting firm. We help clients cocreate:
A Blue Sky Vision that gives direction.
Fresh Air Culture which provides a boundary of expected values and behaviours.
Solid Earthy Structures that are grounded enabling different teams to synergize the goals and roles.
Smooth Water Flows for defining the processes and systems, which facilitate the flow of work.
Fired up Competence by developing the motivation and wherewithal for people to perform to their potential.