Ventera Welcomes Gopal Sharathchandra as new SVP of Financial Solutions

Ventera welcomes Gopal “Sharath” Sharathchandra as new Senior Vice President of Financial Solutions, the latest expansion in the company’s effort to bolster industry expertise in banking and finance. Sharath will support Ventera’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning practice focusing on serving commercial clients to enhance their efficiency, adaptability, and delivery of business value. “We are thrilled to have Sharath on …

The Washington Post Names Ventera a 2022 Top Washington-area Workplace

For the second year in a row, Ventera has been selected as a 2022 Top Workplace by The Washington Post. The selection is based solely on employee feedback gathered through an anonymous, third-party survey designed to identify the top-ranking workplaces in the region. Employees rated their organizations on such issues as where the company is headed, how much managers encourage …

Ventera Introduces Women in Technology Subcommittee

Last week marked the official kickoff meeting for Ventera’s newest sub-committee, Women in Technology.  Though the group is still working to define its official mission statement, their objective is to create a space for women to learn the latest technologies, grow their skills, network, and deliver more value to the organization as well as the next generation of women technologists …

Ventera Sponsors Study Session for Bucknell Engineering Students

Ventera Full Stack Developer and former Bucknell Engineering student Jordan Faith is always drumming up new ways to give back to his alma mater. This year he worked with the Director of the University’s Engineering Success Alliance Jason Milner to coordinate a study session for ESA students during finals week. Ventera sponsored the event.  Altogether about 30 students from the …

Ventera Celebrates Autism Acceptance Month

Blue was the color of our latest company lunch, as team members, both in-person and remote, sported the color to show support for autism acceptance. Wearing blue during the month of April has become a symbol for the Light it Up Blue campaign, a movement created by Autism Speaks to foster understanding and acceptance for those with autism.  “This was …

You Might Be Using Dark UX Patterns

You Might Be Using Dark UX Patterns Users’ hire your website or app to do a job. Whether it’s to use a service, learn about a topic or to purchase something, the user has goals — and so do you. A well-designed experience makes it super simple and intuitive for the user to know where to look and what to click to …

Operations Research: Making Data-backed Decisions with Limited Data and Little Certainty

What is Operations Research? Making decisions is easy, making good ones is hard. Arriving at the best decision with limited data and lots of uncertainty is even harder. Operations Research (OR) provides a framework for making better decisions when data is incomplete and uncertainty is high. Since we all face these challenges, all decision-makers should consider themselves as operations researchers, …

Ventera Shows Support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Venterans far and wide came together to showcase their support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month by attending our October all-hands meeting decked out in pink. For some, it required creativity and going deep into the wardrobe to find a pink headband, rhinestone hat, or shirt from their children’s closet. “Our innovative spirit was on full display,” said Christina Pritchett, Ventera …

Ventera and Akiak Technology Partnership Brings Internet to Those Who Need It Most

In February 2020, Ventera’s EVP of Government Services, Jeff Smith, received a call from a friend, Kevin Hamer, who, along with his wife, Sharon, had started a Tribally Owned Organization. One of their projects was to bring broadband internet to the Akiak Native Community (ANC), a federally recognized tribe in Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (YKD), the second-largest unserved area in America. Kevin was seeking Jeff’s …

Ventera Earns 2021 Top Workplace Award by The Washington Post

Ventera has been selected as a 2021 Top Workplace by The Washington Post—ranking 19th out of 76 companies in our category by earning higher average scores based on company and employee alignment, engagement, leadership, culture, and innovation. The selection is based solely on employee feedback gathered through an anonymous, third-party survey designed to identify the top ranking workplaces in the …

CMS Teams Up with Ventera to Launch Acute Hospital Care at Home Program

CMS responded swiftly by outlining steps to provide health care services to ailing patients outside a traditional hospital setting. The Acute Hospital Care At Home Program (AHCAH) was created to provide eligible hospitals with the innovative and unprecedented regulatory flexibility to treat eligible patients in their homes, expanding the Hospital Without Walls effort launched in March. To launch AHCAH, CMS partnered …