Badinehal Executive Speakers’ Series
The Badinehal Executive Speakers’ Series brings accomplished leaders to campus to share their experiences, perspectives and lessons in leadership with students, alumni and the broader community.
Through engaging conversations with executives from a range of industries, the series offers attendees a firsthand look at the opportunities, challenges and decisions that shape successful careers and organizations. Each event will provide an opportunity to hear directly from leaders about their professional journeys and the experiences that have influenced their approach to leadership.
Events are complimentary and open to students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members.
Speaker
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| Steve Jones serves as global chairman and CEO of Allied Universal – the world’s leading security and facility services provider and trusted partner to more than 400 of the Fortune 500. With operations in 100 countries, the company is the third-largest private employer in North America and seventh in the world. Since joining Universal Protection Services in 1996, Jones has grown the $12-million business into Allied Universal, with annual revenue of more than $22 billion. A sought-after expert, Jones has participated in thousands of interviews for top national and international news organizations such as CNN, FOX News, Forbes, Bloomberg, Yahoo! Finance, The Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times. He is also the author of No Off Season: The Constant Pursuit of More, a motivating playbook for achieving more in business, leadership and life. |
Agenda
- Oct. 14, 2026
- Time: 5:30–7:30 p.m.
- Speaker program: 5:30–6:45 p.m.
- Networking reception: 6:45–7:30 p.m.
Venkat (Vinnie) Badinehal
Managing Director
Global Head of Financial Institutions Group
Investment Banking
RBC Capital Markets, New York, NY
Venkat (Vinnie) Badinehal serves as the Global Head of the Financial Institutions Group within Global Investment Banking at RBC Capital Markets. Based in New York, he specializes in providing strategic, capital markets, balance sheet and M&A advisory services to financial institutions clients. Prior to joining RBC in 2017, he was a Managing Director and Head of the Financial Institutions Group in the Americas at Deutsche Bank and a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch in the Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group.
Vinnie has served as an advisor on some of the industry’s most notable transactions. He has been part of over 250 M&A and capital markets transactions globally with an aggregate transaction value of greater than $750 billion.
Vinnie is a proud alumnus of the Eller School where he received his Bachelor’s degree. In 2025, he received the Wildcat Career Champion Award for his support of a number of initiatives including recruiting Eller students, the Wall Street Scholars program and supporting the Professional Development Center. He is also pleased to be sponsoring the Badinehal Executive Speakers’ Series.
Vinnie also has an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he was an Emerging Economies Fellow. At Wharton, he was the founding Chairman of the Wharton-India Economic Forum and currently serves on the advisory board of the forum.