Venkatesh Shivanna (goes by “Venki”) is a Technical executive with over 20yrs. broad experience in building Data platforms at scale to funnel Digital transformation efforts, digital strategy, and customer engagement. He is currently the Technical Director II, DATA & AI within the Digital Platform Engineering team at Electronic Arts Inc., where he oversees Digital transformation efforts including Information architecture, Identity, Telemetry, Data, Business Intelligence, and gaming live services needs. He also drives cross-functional teams across EA org. to run the high profile “Player 360” initiative, solving some of the toughest business problems to identify Game player’s mobility across platforms to improve their personalized experience in a secure and a safer environment.

Prior to joining EA | Venki was a Senior consultant who provided consulting services in Data & Analytics space to many fortune 500 companies across the globe while working for KPMG(BearingPoint) and Accenture consulting firms.