Venkat R.

About Venkat R.

If my left and right brains were hands, I’d be ambidextrous. 18+ years in brand building, digital growth, and business leadership. I’ve built businesses from scratch, scaled them to multi-million-dollar revenues, and shaped brands that cut through in competitive markets. I love selling brands. I hate selling myself. So here are some quick things about me:Business BuilderCo-founded and scaled three ventures: from India’s first escape room business (Riddle Room, 1M+ customers) to Carbonado, a luggage & carrywear brand, to a marketing-led growth company that crossed ₹200+M revenue.Brand BuilderI\'ve created campaigns for more iconic brands than you can shake an iPhone at. My longtime creative partners and I have produced work for Himalaya, Jockey, Wrogn, Flipkart, Myntra, Bluestone, Ola, Preethi, Maiyas, GoDaddy, Nova IVF, Sleepyhead, Suzuki and more collaborating directly with CXOs to translate ambition into market impact.Growth Architect & Marketing LeaderKnown for doubling revenue in short spans by combining positioning, storytelling, performance, and customer experience. Built digital communities of 23M+ users and designed growth engines that deliver both scale and profitability.Trusted Ear of Founders & CEOsI work closely with leadership teams to shape brand strategy, unlock new markets, and translate business ambition into measurable growth. A collaborator who knows when to push creative boundariesand when to prioritize commercial outcomes.Leadership StyleI lead with curiosity and commercial clarity. I push teams to experiment boldly, but anchor every decision in measurable business impact. Calm in crises, collaborative in style, decisive when it matters most.Currently open to senior marketing leadership roles (CMO, Head of Marketing, Head of Brand) across consumer and tech where brand love and business growth move together. Some people call me insightful. Some call me funny and engaging. My wife just rolls her eyes and call me mad. I dig wine, gaming, running and sports.

Experience

1. Chief Marketing Officer

   Decorpot

   Apr 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   l lead marketing for Decorpot, one of India’s largest and fastest-growing home-interiors brands with 40+ showrooms across 18 cities, on a fractional basis. Brought in to redefine the brand, rebuild the customer experience, and architect a marketing engine that could scale nationally.I led a complete brand transformation, clarifying the brand purpose, rewriting its narrative, and reshaping its visual/verbal expression to elevate Decorpot from a city-centric interiors provider into a trusted, national home-lifestyle brand with multi-million-dollar revenue scale.Beyond identity, I redesigned the entire customer journey: awareness to research to design consultation to showroom experience to production to installation to post-delivery delight. My focus: to create a brand that felt consistent, intentional, and emotionally resonant across all digital/physical touchpoints.To support scale, I built Decorpot’s first in-house marketing org, uniting brand, content, creative, CRM, paid media, and showroom experience into one integrated system. I introduced structured planning, creative-performance loops, and brand-led storytelling frameworks that ensured every touchpoint reinforced trust and differentiation.I also brought agentic AI into the marketing stack, deploying text + voice bots that handled first-response, qualification, and routing. This improved MQL→SQL flow, reduced response times dramatically, and added consistency to lead handling across all 18 cities.I partnered closely with founders on national GTM: shaping positioning, creating unified campaigns, refining messaging for multiple consumer cohorts, and aligning sales, marketing, and design teams behind one cohesive growth narrative.This role combines brand architecture, customer experience, modern GTM, AI-assisted engagement, and multi-city scale, with the goal of ultimately creating a brand system, engine, and identity capable of taking Decorpot from 10 to 100 in a crowded, trust-driven category.

Education

• Loyola College

  BBA, Marketing & Management

  2001 — 2004

• Indian School of Business

  Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General

• DAV Boys Senior Secondary School

  Associate's degree, Business/Commerce, General

  1986 — 2001