Mouli Venkatesan is the chief information officer of UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Health and Enterprise Clinical Technology. Venkatesan leads Optum Health and Enterprise Clinical Technology with the vision of delivering the next generation of health care by building a high-quality, comprehensive, connected and consumer-centric health care technology system built on personalized connections. Venkatesan currently leads a global team of over 7,000 team members who are working together to improve every care continuum touch point for patients, members and providers.
Venkatesan also leads the enterprise technology agenda for interoperability and closely partners with UnitedHealthcare and Optum business stakeholders, external regulators and industry collaborative standards forums to advance the interoperability agenda for those we serve.
Prior to this role, Venkatesan served as CIO of UnitedHealthcare Core Services. He was responsible for establishing, leading and executing strategic technology roadmaps and the associated capital investments to support UnitedHealthcare’s businesses through innovative and differentiated technology capabilities.
Venkatesan has an extensive background in the technology strategy and software engineering of modern engineering platforms and high-volume processing systems across the health care domain. He is committed to health care innovation and serves in an advisory role for both VIM and Diameter Health.
Venkatesan received his undergraduate degree in electronic engineering from Indian University and his MBA in health care from the University of St. Thomas.