Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)

Inside TransUnion’s OneTru: Building a Platform for the AI Era
In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Venkat Achanta, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology, Data & Analytics Officer at TransUnion, a $4.5B global information and insights company. Since joining after TransUnion’s acquisition of Neustar, Venkat has led a sweeping modernization of the company’s tech stack—culminating in the creation of OneTru, a platform powering data governance, analytics, and AI innovation at scale.
Venkat shares how his 7,000-person global team built a single pane of glass to manage petabytes of sensitive data across 30+ countries and hundreds of products. He also discusses how TransUnion’s OneTru and TruIQ platforms are enabling internal teams and external clients to rapidly build, deploy, and govern real-time machine learning models.
Key insights include:
- The architectural vision behind TransUnion’s unified platform strategy
- How OneTru boosts fraud detection by 50% while reducing false positives
- Why TransUnion is embedding agentic AI workflows across its ecosystem
- Lessons from merging 10+ tech stacks post-acquisition, including Neustar
Tune in to learn how TransUnion is reshaping analytics and decision-making in a highly regulated, data-driven industry.