Professional career

He is well known in the industry as an expert in business start-ups, in managing subsidiaries, portfolio management, in driving business growth with P&L responsibility, stream lining operations, and in profitably managing businesses in multiple industry domains, across markets of the Middle East, Africa, Europe, South Asia & South America.

His sectors of expertise include industrial manufacturing, construction & building materials, metals & plastics downstream processing, engineering services, machinery, capital goods, consumer products, contracting & supplying into the Oil & Gas, EPC, Mining, Power, Defense, Infrastructure, Building & Construction industry.

With 35+ years of executive management experience, he has held CXO positions with leading German/US multinational companies, listed firms, diversified business conglomerates and holding companies, where he provided strategic business direction at a Board level, and has successfully delivered multimillion US$ P&L mandates. He now operates his Management Consultancy. Most recently he led the Dubai subsidiary of a German multinational company.

Venky Kosaraju has the rare distinction of having successfully managed businesses across 74 countries, and having set-up 48 profitably operating fabrication Business Units BUs.

He has won several accolades, and has been recognized by industry magazines in Germany, Iran and UAE, for his insights and experience across emerging markets, and for his techno-commercial contributions to the industries he has served as a subject matter expert.

He has also served on the Advisory Board and Technical Committees of material testing institutes, and industry regulatory authorities in the US, Germany, Israel and South Africa. His lectures and articles on business development in Emerging Markets have been much sought after by management students in UAE, India, Canada & South Africa. He also conducts pro bono coaching & mentoring of underprivileged students.

Educational background

He has done his B.Sc. Physics from Osmania University, Hyderabad and Business Management studies from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management IIM Calcutta, which was established in collaboration with MIT Sloan School of Management, USA and The Ford Foundation, USA.

He has also done his Post Graduate studies in Management & Entrepreneurship, and Business Leadership Program from Jadavpur University, Calcutta.

He is also qualified in Project Management from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology IIT Delhi, and is a certified expert in Strategic Leadership, and Strategy in Practice from the Indian Institute of Management IIM Calcutta. He is also a qualified ISO9001 auditor.

Personal life

Venky Kosaraju is a Canadian of Indian origin, multilingual, with a multicultural mindset, and is a long time Dubai resident with his wife and son. Having traveled extensively, and having done business in almost half the world’s markets, he believes that the entire world is indeed a global village, and is one large family. The world is not small, but is rather tiny.

Hobbies & activities

He was an active Toast Master, business coach, and is a voracious reader on subjects related to metaphysics, spirituality & science. He plays basketball, practices yoga, and is a keen follower of international politics and current affairs.