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Mouli Venkatesan

CIO, Optum Health and Financial Technology

Mouli Venkatesan

Mouli Venkatesan is the chief information officer of UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Health and Financial Technology. Mouli leads 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. This global team is working together to improve every care continuum touch point for patients, members, and providers.

Mouli 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, Mouli served as the CIO of UnitedHealthcare Core Services. He established, led, and executed strategic technology roadmaps and associated capital investments to support UnitedHealthcare businesses through innovative and differentiated technology capabilities.

Mouli has an extensive background in technology strategy and software engineering for 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 VIM and the City of Eden Prairie Chamber of Commerce.

Mouli received his undergraduate degree in electronic engineering from an Indian university and his MBA in health care from the University of St. Thomas. He currently resides in Minnesota with his wife and two children.