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Venkata (Ven) Rao is the Executive Vice President of HR at KVC Health Systems. In this role, he provides support to all of KVCā€™s local teams nationwide that employ 2,400 professionals at 60 locations nationwide. Ven is a human capital executive who has worked in two continents and three domains of life insurance, education, and health care. In this role spanning two decades, he has worked with in-person, distributed, and remote teams to design, develop, and implement people solutions at workplaces. In health care, he has worked with state-operated mental health hospitals and not-for-profit organizations operating in intellectual and developmental disability services.

Ven has been a student and practitioner of a life-long mission of learning newer ways to connect and work with people to help them achieve their full potential. As a mental health advocate, his areas of interest, explorations, and pursuits originate from the life philosophy of ā€œbloom wherever you are planted.ā€ He uses big data and leans six sigma methodology to thoroughly research and then develop human-centered solutions for individual, team, and organizational impact.