Sriram Viswanathan
Sriram Viswanathan has more than 30 years of technology business operations and venture capital experience. Prior to Celesta, Sriram was the founder of IndusAge Partners, a cross border venture firm investing in innovative companies in the US-India Technology corridor. Sriram spent nearly 20 years at Intel Corporation in various senior management roles, including vice president of the Intel Architecture Group (IAG), vice president of Intel Capital and general manager of Intel’s Incubation and Innovation Group.
Sriram is an active Advisory Board member of the India Semiconductor Mission, an initiative led by the Indian Government under Prime Minister Modi, guiding the development of a robust semiconductor and display manufacturing ecosystem in India. He also serves on the boards of the Aravind Eye Foundation and the World Affairs Council/ Commonwealth Club of California.
Sriram holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Business (1997) and degrees in physics, computer science, and automation from the American College and the Indian Institute of Science in India.
Greg Ulrich
Greg Ulrich is the chief AI and data officer at Mastercard and a member of the company’s Management Committee. He leads Mastercard’s approach for leveraging and integrating AI and data across the business, commercializing both internal and external applications and overseeing enterprise-wide governance of these functions.
Greg has been a key advisor to Mastercard’s executive team, helping shape the future trajectory of the company. Prior to assuming his new role in 2024, Greg served as an executive vice president of Corporate Strategy and M&A, in which he led a global team tasked with developing the company's strategy, driving key growth initiatives, and executing on inorganic investments and acquisitions. In previous roles, Greg has been responsible for guiding Mastercard's Data & Services strategy and innovation team, and he also served as the Data & Services lead in North America.
Greg has more than 25 years of experience helping organizations use data and insights to develop innovative and practical solutions to challenging problems, maximizing shareholder value.
He originally joined Mastercard in 2015 when it acquired Applied Predictive Technologies (APT), a leading cloud-based analytics company. Greg guided the firm's Consumer Packaged Goods and Manufacturing vertical, and also served as the primary lead for its work in San Francisco, Australia and New Zealand.
Prior to joining APT, Greg was a management consultant, initially with Marakon Associates before working with myriad organizations in the social and nonprofit sector.
He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Duke University.
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Janco Venter
Janco joined Arete in 2023 and is based in the firm’s Cape Town office. He focuses on the global semiconductor component sector as an equity research analyst. Janco joined Arete after a distinguished career as a professional sportsman, where he took on various leadership roles and was a regular public speaker.
