Akshay Surendra

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 13 years of global growth marketing experience.
  • Led successful user growth strategies for major brands.
  • Recognized as a top performer in the advertising industry.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Growth Marketing Leader with expertise in E-commerce and Advertising sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Growth MarketingUser AcquisitionSales StrategyAdvertisingGrowth StrategyPerformance MarketingUser GrowthBrand StrategyMedia StrategyStrategic PlanningCampaign ManagementCreative Strategy

Other Skills

Account PlanningAnalyticsBrand ArchitectureBrand CommunicationBrand DevelopementBrand DevelopmentBrand ImplementationBrand ManagementBranded ContentBusiness AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyCRMCompetitive AnalysisContent Marketing

About

A senior growth marketing leader with over 13 years of experience in driving growth for a diverse set of brands globally.

Experience

Snabbit

Senior Vice President, Growth & Marketing

Dec 2025Present · 3 mos

Amazon

3 roles

Head of User Growth & Marketing, Amazon Now

Oct 2024Oct 2025 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Responsible for driving transaction volume and value growth for Amazon Now, Amazon's quick commerce offering, in India.

Manager, Business Development, Amazon Advertising

Dec 2022Oct 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Responsible for sales strategy and go to market for all media ad products (Prime Video Ads, miniTV Ads, FireTV, Alexa, DSP 3P Video) and Amazon Marketing Cloud in India
  • Responsible for developing the partner-led sales business to drive advertiser coverage for all media ad products in India

Senior Marketing Manager, Amazon Pay

Jun 2021Dec 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Responsible for driving transaction volume and value growth for Insurance, Wealth, Travel & Entertainment categories in India.

Troopod, betterhalf, burncal, the nestery

Angel Investor

Feb 2021Present · 5 yrs 1 mo

Dunzo

Head of User Growth

Aug 2019Jun 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Responsible for driving transaction volume and value growth for all consumer businesses. Focus areas included growth strategy, performance marketing, user lifecycle management, retention and conversion optimization.
  • Crafted and implemented a growth strategy to improve payback period by 6x, which led to the pivot to grocery business, the launch of Dunzo Daily and laid the foundations for growing to 2 Mn weekly orders.

1mg

AVP, User Growth

Dec 2017Jul 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Led a team of 10 marketers, 5 product managers and 20 engineers to drive revenue growth for all consumer businesses. Focus areas included performance marketing, conversion optimization, search engine optimization and user lifecycle management.
  • Highlights:
  • Doubled monthly active transacting users in Dec ‘18 over Dec ‘17
  • Started the user growth team; improved web & app conversion rate by 4x & 2x in 10 months
  • Doubled organic web users in Jul ‘18 over Dec ‘17
  • Grew paid new transacting users at a CMGR of 12% over 20 months, while reducing cost of acquisition by 40%

Zomato

AVP, Marketing

Jul 2015Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Led a full-stack, internal marketing agency of 10 for brand strategy, communications & campaign management and was part of a cross-functional team driving user growth globally.
  • Highlights:
  • Achieved 25% Online Ordering penetration amongst Zomato app users in Oct '17 via product optimization & user lifecycle management
  • Started performance advertising for Online Ordering user acquisition in Feb ‘17; scaled to 50k new orderers in Oct ‘17 at a CAC of $4
  • Improved order frequency by 1.5x in Oct '17 over Jan '16 via a personalized restaurant recommendation push notification engine
  • Increased organic app downloads globally by 3.5x in Oct '17 over Jan '17 by converting mobile web visitors
  • Closed corporate sales and managed marketing partnerships worth $1.5 Mn with brands like Paytm, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, Coke and Bira

Groupm

2 roles

Director, Strategic Planning, Mindshare Fulcrum

Jan 2015Jun 2015 · 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Developed media strategy for Unilever brands in India. Helped start the strategic planning function and create the annual media planning template in 2015.

Director, Invention, Mindshare Fulcrum

Mar 2011Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Conceptualized and executed 30+ campaigns for Unilever brands like Lux, Surf Excel, Vaseline, Vim, Axe and Kissan in ~4 years at Mindshare; won 20+ international and national media and creative awards.
  • Identified as one of the ‘Top 30 under 30’ in the Indian media and advertising industry by IMPACT magazine, Exchange4media in 2013.

Hcl infosystems ltd

Manager, Key Accounts

Apr 2010Mar 2011 · 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

The coca-cola company

Intern, Sales and Marketing

Apr 2009May 2009 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

Infosys

Software Engineer

Jun 2006Jun 2008 · 2 yrs · Pune Area, India

National centre for biological sciences

Research Trainee

Dec 2005Apr 2006 · 4 mos

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Indore

PGDM — Sales & Marketing

Jan 2008Jan 2010

Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy

B.Tech — Biotechnology

Jan 2002Jan 2006

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