BAKER CITY â Venkat Subramanian doesn't live in Baker City, but he wants to support this community as much as he can. Venkat grew up in Chennai, India, population of about 7 million. His family's roots, though, are in a village that he compares in size with Baker City. After earning a bachelor's degree in engineering in India, he came to the United States in 2000 to earn a master's at Oregon State University. He began working with Richard and Kathleen Chaves, owners of Chaves Consulting in Baker City, in 2004. Since 2010, Venkat's company, Arikkan Inc., has worked on several projects with Chaves Consulting, including the Synergy Data Center.