Dr. Venkat Maroju is a founder member of TeNA and has been serving the cause of Telangana since the year 2000 in USA in various capacities. He is one of the handful of people who were instrumental in building Telangana identity in USA. Dr. Venkat is CEO of SourceTrace Systems and earlier in his career held senior positions in large corporations such as Bose and ComauPICO (Fiat Subsidiary). He grew up in Jangaon town, Warangal District and attended Osmania University, Indian Institute of Science, Old Dominion University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.