Arvind Purushotham

Global Head, Venture Investing at Citi Ventures

Speaker

Arvind Purushotham is the Global Head of Citi Ventures. He leads the team’s efforts to catalyze innovation and accelerate growth across Citi by bringing the outside in, building and incubating new capabilities, and delivering thought leadership throughout both the bank and the finance and tech ecosystems. Arvind also serves as Citi Ventures’ Global Head of Venture Investing, overseeing all of the group’s venture investing activities and partnering with both Citi colleagues and leading startups to bring cutting-edge technologies and capabilities to Citi’s businesses and functions. In addition, he advises the Citi Impact Fund, which invests in "double bottom line" U.S.-based private sector companies that are helping address some of society's most pressing challenges. Prior to Citi, Arvind spent nearly a decade as a Managing Director at Menlo Ventures, where he was an investor and Board member at companies including Kazeon Systems, Cavium Networks, Solidcore, etc.