PwC U.S. has appointed Venkata Peri as a partner in the firm's expanding Risk Assurance practice. Peri will be responsible for driving growth in the recently formed Advanced Risk & Compliance Analytics Services group of the firm's IT & Project Assurance practice.

Peri will focus on both tactical and strategic initiatives, including expanding PwC's Advanced Risk & Compliance Analytics offering into broader areas of compliance in the financial services and healthcare industries. Working with partner John Sabatini, who leads the new service, they will help risk, compliance and finance organizations strengthen their compliance and surveillance capabilities both quantitatively and qualitatively. The practice also assists companies in transforming departments to address increasing data needs and helps build systems to enable senior management to focus on highest risk areas and assist with data governance needs.

Peri, an alumnus of PwC Consulting, comes from Deloitte Consulting, where he was a partner and led efforts to drive information management and advanced analytics capabilities.  Prior to Deloitte, Peri was a partner with IBM Global Services, both in India and in the United States. 

At IBM, Peri launched the CRM and Business Analytics/Optimization service lines for India/South Asia. He was also the founding member and member of leadership team of Reveleus (now part of Oracle), delivering integrated banking analytics solutions across customer, risk and performance analytics.