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Varun Krishna

Chief Executive Officer, Rocket Companies

Varun Krishna is the Chief Executive Officer of Rocket Companies and Rocket Mortgage. 

In his role as Chief Executive Officer of Rocket Companies, Krishna oversees strategy for the business and how its brands and products work together as an ecosystem. Additionally, as Chief Executive Officer of Rocket Mortgage, he is responsible for the vision and day-to-day operations of the nation’s largest and most innovative retail mortgage company. 

Krishna is passionate about building tools that help consumers make their financial lives easier. He joined Rocket with more than 20 years of experience in product development, technology, and leadership. 

Prior to being named Chief Executive Officer of Rocket Companies, Krishna was the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Intuit’s Consumer Group, where he led the company’s suite of consumer and financial products and services, including TurboTax, in the U.S. and Canada. Before his time at Intuit, Krishna held executive positions at PayPal, Groupon and BetterWorks after spending his early career at Microsoft overseeing a variety of product lines and features. 

Krishna earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada.