about us

Krishna Venugopal is the founder of Olivine Research. He has 16 years of leadership experience across several roles in the technology and financial services domains. Krishna obtained his MBA from the Paul Merage School of Business at University of California, Irvine where he was a Dean's and John Creelman fellow. He is a CFA® charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of North Carolina. He also holds the Financial Risk Manager Designation from the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). Krishna has experience incubating technology startups and was also involved with research at CRITO ( Center for Research on IT and Organizations, UC Irvine). Krishna unwinds playing recreational soccer, hitting the mountain biking trails or watching Liverpool and Carolina Hurricanes games with his 6 year old