TEAM

VENKAT KANDRU

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

EMAIL venkat.kandru@pagewood.com
OFFICE (713) 804-4000


Venkat joined Pagewood in 2022 as an advisor and is now the firm’s Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Venkat is responsible for building and leading the teams to bring successful technology-driven solutions throughout Pagewood’s business processes. Venkat’s initial core focus is developing, executing and integrating The Lighthouse, Pagewood’s proprietary and unique machine learning, time series predictive, algorithm-based market research platform. 

Before his advisory role at Pagewood, Venkat headed the technological strategy and digital transformation for Stream Realty Partners as their Chief Information and Digital Officer. There, he led the firm’s technology and digital transformation agenda across multiple business functions and geographies nationally.

Prior to Stream, Venkat was the Executive Vice President of Technology at The Howard Hughes Company for eight years. In his role, he was responsible for all aspects of the company’s technology strategy for using and creating technological resources and solutions. As technology employee #1, Venkat built the IT function from the ground up and evolved the IT organization to 50+ professionals, which enabled the company’s growth from a $2 billion valuation in 2011 to a $5 billion valuation when he left in 2019. 

Venkat holds a Master of Arts in Computer Science from Temple University.