Premium Electronic Discovery Service
Ramana Venkata
Senior Vice President, Iron Mountain
& General Manager, Stratify
Ramana Venkata, SVP & GM at Iron Mountain, is responsible for driving Stratify's vision of “making Unstructured Data actionable” and its execution through operational excellence. Venkata runs Stratify’s business, and its innovation and delivery of market-leading services and software in the Electronic Data Discovery (EDD), Investigations and Records Management domains.
Venkata has written extensively on the topic of electronic discovery (see links to recent writing in the right column) and speaks regularly at events in the US and internationally.
Venkata founded Stratify in 1999, and with the help of a passionate team of high-quality individuals and investors, built Stratify to be the fastest-growing and leading provider of technology-enabled EDD services to AmLaw 200 law firms and Fortune 500 corporations. Upon Iron Mountain’s acquisition of Stratify in December 2007, Venkata is focused on integrating its vision of collecting, storing and protecting enterprises’ data with Stratify’s vision of making that data actionable for profit, compliance and legal applications.
Prior to founding Stratify, Venkata served at Intel Corporation working on Data Mining methodologies and applications. He completed five years of Ph.D. research in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics at Stanford University, holds a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. Venkata is married and adores his wife.