CHI BHATIA

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Written By Erin Pellegrino

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VP, Strategy and Growth at OnePlan and VenueTwin

Areas of Expertise:

AEC tech, infrastructure projects, UK-based candidates

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Chi Bhatia works at the intersection of design, business, and technology with a focus on Sports & Entertainment. He is currently VP of Strategy & Growth at OnePlan, a SaaS start-up that builds 2D &3D technology for events & venues allowing users to visually map, plan and monetize their assets. ⁠⁠


Chi’s architectural experience has been global across the US, India, & the UK, focused on the design & development of stadiums and arenas within larger mixed-use districts. Across these projects, Chi has worked on storytelling, brand research, feasibility, master planning,⁠ computational design & BIM workflows. Chi spent nine years with HKS where he was on the design team for SoFi Stadium. His roles within architectural practice have combined design with strategy consulting and venture development with a focus on technology’s role in the built environment. Central to Chi’s work is an interest & experience in shaping ideas that have a digital, physical & virtual application.⁠


Chi holds a Bachelor of Architecture and a minor in Business from The University of Southern California. He has lived in Delhi, Kathmandu, Singapore, and Los Angeles and now calls London home. He enjoys football and tennis, making and discovering food - and spending time with his Labrador Zazu.⁠

Erin Pellegrino
Erin Pellegrino is currently a Masters of Architecture II Candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Described by her professors as a “maker and a thinker with a strong emotive dimension to her work”, Erin Pellegrino is interested in the human qualities of architecture. Previously, she graduated from Cornell University’s Bachelor of Architecture in 2014 where her design excellence was recognized with the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal for her thesis on architecture and perfume. In spring 2013, she was nominated to represent Cornell University’s Bachelor of Architecture program for the AIANYS student work competition. She has also been awarded both the Seipp Prize and York Prize. Erin has worked for a range of firms and institutions, as a designer at FXFOWLE, a Studio Coach at NuVu Studio in Cambridge, as a Teaching Associate at Cornell University, and as a shop assistant at both the Cornell University and Harvard University fabrication shops. Recently she was awared the Paul M. Heffernan Travel Fellowship, to travel and realize a mountaineering shelter in the Julian Alps. She was also awarded first prize in Redesigning Detroit, a competition for the redesign of a vacant city block in Detroit, Michigan. This was a result of a collaboration with Davide Marchetti, a Roman architect and visiting critic at Cornell University’s Cornell in Rome program. In the summer of 2011, Erin traveled to South Africa as a part of a Design + Build team to construct an early education crèche in Johannesburg. Other projects include a collaboration with Jake Rudin on a renovation of a Richard Meier home in Ithaca, NY, which was awarded a Historic Ithaca Preservation Award as well as construction of a Ceremonial Japanese Tea House in Danby, NY.
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