Ravi Shekhar Kv

About Ravi Shekhar Kv

Setting up my next business in Healthcare with Kashyap and Anubhav\"Key professional milestones:1) Joined the Doubtnut team, as their Co Founder in Mar\'20 and merged Doubtnut with Allen in Sep\'23 and took an exit.2) At Vedantu (Nov\'18- Mar\'20)- taken the mandate to turnaround Vedantu in Nov\'18 and championed its growth story from Series B to Series C and D. Owned P&L, Strategy, Planning and Execution of Sales, Mktg, Category and Product functions at Vedantu and re-built its Distribution channels, Online traffic and Consumer Tech assets from scratch. Resulted in a fund raise of about $70 Mn and 10X growth in valuation from $24Mn to $250Mn in 15 months and growing since then. 3) Growth Advisor: Advised Founders at Purplle.com on marketing and growth between April\'16 and Sep\'18, Doubtnut from Sep\'17 to Oct\'18 and Vedantu from April\'18 to Oct\'18.4) Corporate Leadership: Been a Functional Leader at eBay carrying P&L responsibilities as the Head of Digital Marketing & CRM (Business, Product & Engineering) for about 3 years and as the Head of Lifestyle & Fashion categories for 2 years. Key Achievements as the Functional Head of Digital Marketing & CRM:•Delivered nearly Half a Billion US$ GMV•Brought in 7MM+ First Time Buyers•Increased the net Active Buyer number by 4.5MM+ Innovations at eBay & Cavinkare as an Operator in the first decade of my career: A few projects that were first-of-its-kind for the organization - Paid Search: Tech stack for arguably the most efficient Google Shopping portfolio in India delivering up to 600k clicks/ day and the learnings were consumed by other eBay markets later - Algorithms: Introduced and scaled dynamic and personalized email stacks - Vertical E-commerce on an open marketplace like eBay:(1) Dot-style - conceptualized, built and scaled an Event-based Discount Destination quite successfully.(2) eBay Daily - Designed, built and executed a Tailored shopping experience required for offering FMCG and Gourmet range of products - unique at eBay - 3rd party Affiliate cashback program was first introduced in India under my leadership - Designed and built a downstream supply chain automation software - Distributor billing and stock management automation at Cavinkare

Experience

1. Advisor and Mentor to Founders

   Vedantu

   Nov 2023 — Present

   I advise Vamsi on various aspects of Vedantu\'s business

Education

• Andhra University

  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science

  2000 — 2003

• Bharathidasan Institute of Management Tiruchirapalli

  MBA, Finance & Marketing

  2004 — 2006

• Aptech

  eACCP - HDSE, Computer Science

  2000 — 2002