Dhivya Suryadevara

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Dhivya Suryadevara
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Suryadevara in 2018
Born
Madras, (now Chennai)
Tamil Nadu, India
Alma mater University of Madras
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Harvard Business School
CFA Institute
Occupation Chief Executive Officer
EmployerOptum Financial UnitedHealth Group
SpouseRaj Suryadevara
Children1 [1]
AwardsFortune's 40 Under 40

Dhivya Suryadevara is an Indian-American executive and the CEO of Optum Financial, part of UnitedHealth Group. She is the former chief financial officer of Stripe, an American e-commerce payments company and the former executive vice president and chief financial officer of General Motors.

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Early life and education

Suryadevara was brought up in Chennai, India along with two sisters by her mother, who worked in Syndicate Bank in Chennai. [1]

Suryadevara studied in St John's Senior Secondary School in Mandaveli, Chennai. She did her bachelor's degree in commerce from the Ethiraj College for Women of the University of Madras. She later went on to pursue Chartered Accountancy at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. She is also a chartered financial analyst, and has an MBA from Harvard Business School. [2] [3]

Career

Suryadevara started her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers while attending the University of Madras. [4] She then interned at the World Bank in 2002 and went on to UBS as an investment banker.[ when? ] [4] She joined General Motors in 2004. [5] In 2013, she was appointed the CFO and chief investment officer of GM Asset Management. In 2015, she accepted a role as Vice President of Finance and Treasurer. In 2017, she became the first female chief financial officer at General Motors. [3] [6]

On August 13, 2020, Suryadevara resigned her position as chief financial officer at General Motors to work as chief financial officer for e-commerce payments company, Stripe. [7]

Suryadevara joined UnitedHealth Group in February of 2024 as Chief Executive Officer of Optum Financial and is a member of the UnitedHealth Group executive management team.

Suryadevara was named to Fortune's 40 Under 40 in 2015 and 2018. [8]

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References

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