Venkat Krishnaswamy (Swamy)
Board of Directors  

Swamy serves as a member of the Board of Directors of WithumSmith+Brown Global Assurance. He brings over 25 years of experience in consulting and assisting mid-sized businesses in a variety of industries, managing start-up's including challenges of growth, hiring key personnel, cash flow and organizational issues. Swamy has provided these companies with assistance on such matters as Information technology consulting, mergers and acquisitions.

Swamy has a diverse background working for international firms as well as serving as a co-founder and CEO for a start-up which he turned around for a successful merger with a publicly listed company. Prior to joining WS+B Global Assurance, Swamy co-founded an IT Consulting company called Transys Technologies which he grew to  a successful consulting practice with outsourcing centers in India. He was the CEO / President of the firm and was responsible for securing prestigious outsourcing projects from diverse industries including Financial Services, Telecom, Retail and Manufacturing. Transys also spun off a Training company called "TransEd" to offer state of the art training for aspiring IT consultants. Transys was merged with a publicly traded company now called Quintegra Solutions (a CMM Level 4 company). Earlier, Swamy was the President and CEO of Hexaware Technologies which is now an actively traded public firm in India. Swamy was amongst the first hires of the core team of Hexaware which today is amongst the top 10 software consulting firm in India with CMM level 5 certification. Swamy began his career as a field engineer with erstwhile Burroughs corporation (now Unisys Corporation) and was trained extensively in their Small and Large scale systems (B and A series) of Burroughs in Hong Kong and USA.

Swamy is the author of several articles relating to IT issues impacting businesses. He is a member of several organizations dealing with IT issues, including the New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC) and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA).

A graduate of Bombay University with a BE degree (Honors) in Electrical Engineering.  Swamy is also actively involved in the community. He serves as a volunteer in various social organizations in the US and India. He has also supported the Red Cross and Tsunami relief efforts. Swamy has been involved in various fundraising activities for charity to third world countries including AIDS and Asha for education. He resides in Mercer County, NJ.