Inside TransUnion’s OneTru: Building a Platform for the AI Era

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

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.