Know Our People - Arvind Raghunathan

Arvind Raghunathan

Arvind Raghunathan is a Managing Director and Head of Global Arbitrage at Deutsche Bank, where he has worked since 1995. In this capacity, he manages a large part of the bank’s proprietary trading and investments in a variety of financial instruments globally.
He was born in India in 1963 and obtained a degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, in 1984, where he was a National Talent Search scholar. He then moved to the United States and obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988.
For the next three years, he was an Assistant Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematics at New York University and the University of California, Davis, where he did fundamental research on computing. During this time, he was also a consultant for a number of corporations, including IBM, Hewlett Packard and Xerox. In 1991, he was elected a Fellow of the Institute for Combinatorics.
Later that year, Mr. Raghunathan joined Credit Suisse First Boston, where he was involved in all aspects of the Equities business. In 1995, he joined Deutsche Bank, where he was a co-founder of a new department called Equity Arbitrage. His group continued to grow and became one of the most successful units within the bank as well as in the industry. He has been named several times as one of the world’s top traders by industry publications.
Mr. Raghunathan is actively involved in a number of non-profit organizations. He is on the board of The Dalton School, where his daughters attend fifth grade. At the Asia Society, Mr. Raghunathan is on the advisory committee of the India Fund, which has sponsored major art and cultural events in the United States, as well as established a center in Mumbai. He is also actively involved in establishing centers for South Asian studies at several universities in the United States. Furthermore, Mr. Raghunathan has led fundraising for Sankara Nethralaya, a charitable hospital that specializes in vision care in India. He has also raised funds for the Democratic Party.
Mr. Raghunathan is married to Sribala (Bonnie) Subramanian, formerly a journalist with Time magazine. Their ten year old twin daughters, Anjali and Lipika, attend fifth grade at the Dalton School.