Ravi Teja Kanneganti

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States11 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led Google Chat launch to 1 billion consumers.
Scaled product from 1M to 30M monthly active users.
Focused on technology investments at WestBridge Capital.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on product management and investment strategies.

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Core Skills

Investment BankingBusiness AnalysisProduct Management

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AnalysisBloombergCC++Capital MarketsCorporate FinanceDerivativesEquitiesEquity ValuationFinanceFinancial ModelingMatlabMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficeQuantitative Finance

About

Senior Vice president at WestBridge Capital focusing on technology investments. Please write to me at ravi.kanneganti@westbridgecap.com Ex-PM for Google Chat. Designed and launched Google Chat to 1B Consumers. Scaled the product from 1M to 30M MAU. Led turndown of Google Hangouts to unify Google's communication apps and eliminate brand confusion.

Experience

Westbridge capital

2 roles

Senior Vice President

Promoted

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · San Mateo, California, United States

Vice President

Oct 2022 – Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Mateo, California, United States

Focused on Technology Investments at WestBridge Capital (~$7bn evergreen fund). We invest in private or public companies with a significant nexus to India or South Asia, or led by Indian entrepreneurs for the long-term.
The typical equity investment ranges from $10mm to $250mm, resulting in a substantial minority equity ownership, second only to the founder in many cases.

Capital MarketsDerivativesEquitiesFinancial ModelingInvestment BankingBloomberg+8

Wharton private equity & venture capital alumni association

SF Bay Area Chapter Leader

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Google

2 roles

Product Manager

Promoted

Aug 2019 – Oct 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Product manager for Gmail and Google Chat (Google workspace)

Product Management

Product Manager

May 2018 – Aug 2018 · 3 mos · Mountain View, California

Launched features to improve customer retention and revenue from small/medium advertisers on Google Display ads. Used growth hacking to experiment with smart defaults for ad campaign parameters such as ad spend, campaign name, type, target user segments etc. Secured full time PM position based on strong performance.

The boston consulting group

Product Manager, Digital BCG

Oct 2014 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Led design and development of suite of digital products (mobile apps, website) to improve online sales for financial services clients (eg: Mutual funds). Managed engineering teams to ship products through the product life cycle - user research, prototyping, development, adoption and iteration.

Nomura

Analyst

Jun 2012 – Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Member of the strategy team responsible for business expansion and restructuring of Capital Markets business. Worked closely with regional heads, CFO and investor relations team on quarterly earnings, meetings with analysts and rating agencies.

Sbi capital markets

Associate

May 2011 – Jul 2011 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Built financial models to evaluate the financial health of power projects for subsequent debt syndication. Created prospectus of a $200m debt syndication for a power plant in North India.

Icra management consulting services limited

Business Analyst

Jun 2010 – Jul 2010 · 1 mo · Hyderabad, India

Statistical analysis on power prices in energy markets in India (IEX and PXIL). Forecasted day ahead market prices using auto-regression models and long term market prices using multi-variable regression models.