Alok Jain

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Founded multiple successful digital businesses across three countries.
Built Swiggy Labs to drive innovation in food tech.
Over 20 years of experience in entrepreneurship and marketing.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Food Tech and E-commerce entrepreneur with extensive experience in digital marketing and innovation.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipStrategyInnovationFood TechMarketingDigital MarketingConsultingLogisticsE-commerceSales

Other Skills

AnalyticsBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyCommunity EngagementCross-functional team managementDigital PrintingInternet EntrepreneurLeadershipMarketing StrategyMobile AppsPartnershipsSocial MediaSupply Chain ManagementTechnology IntegrationTraining

About

Having founded multiple digital businesses across India, US and Singapore and serving at CxO roles in couple others at different growth stages, I have experienced startup life in all its glory. Over 20 years in this domain, I have got my hands dirty with various aspects of building a successful business. As an Entrepreneur, I have built businesses across food tech, e-commerce, consumer internet, mobile and consulting. I love creating stuff from scratch and building stellar teams. In my Pursuit of Yummyness, I have been engaged with food tech the past 10 years - first as CMO at Zomato, followed by my own venture Yumist and most recently as an EiR at Swiggy.

Experience

Swiggy

Entrepreneur in Residence (EiR)

Mar 2018 – Nov 2023 · 5 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

As an EiR, I was part of Swiggy's core leadership and working closely with the Founder & CEO to realise the company's vision of bringing unparalleled convenience to urban consumers in India. My role required me to build an innovation engine ground up, formulate and validate various hypotheses and launch initiatives across the spectrum of our consumers and partners.
This journey also led me to conceptualise and build Swiggy Labs from scratch, which was our intrapreneurial Zero-to-One arm. With a cross-functional team across business, product, technology and operations, Swiggy Labs was instrumental in continuously building an innovation pipeline in sync with the company's vision and strategic priorities.

EntrepreneurshipStrategyInnovationLeadership

Yumist

Founder & CEO

Sep 2014 – Mar 2018 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

Yumist was a full-stack food tech company that delivered delicious, homely meals on demand. Customers could place their orders on our apps in seconds and we delivered their meals within 40 minutes. At Yumist, we owned end-to-end of the supply chain from food production to delivery and used technology across all touch points to achieve 35% gross margins in a very price sensitive market. We serviced over a million meals across NCR and Bangalore.

EntrepreneurshipFood TechSupply Chain ManagementTechnology Integration

Zomato

Chief Marketing Officer

Aug 2013 – Jul 2014 · 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Zomato is a popular restaurant discovery service available in multiple countries across APAC, Middle East, Europe, Africa and the Americas. My primary responsibility as CMO was spearheading the global marketing efforts covering digital, ATL, BTL, product distribution, partnerships, PR and community engagement. Besides Marketing, I was also driving New Initiatives and was involved in other functions like Product and Recruitment when needed.

MarketingDigital MarketingPartnershipsCommunity Engagement

Dealsandyou

Chief Marketing Officer

Jan 2013 – May 2013 · 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

DealsAndYou.com is a daily deals platform for the Indian market. As CMO, I was responsible for driving all digital and offline marketing efforts.

Digital MarketingMarketing StrategyMarketing

Unyqe

Co-Founder & Director

Oct 2010 – Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

Unyqe was built with a mission to produce unique mobile & web apps through innovation and creativity. We launched 18 apps across iOS, Android and FB in the multi-player gaming and entertainment categories and gained significant user traction.
Unyqe was created as a 100% virtual company with our project managers, coders, designers distributed across the Globle and the Founders operating out of different cities too. This was a challenging one to pull off, but with 3 months of delving deep into processes and systems - a 100% virtual company became a reality.

Mobile AppsWeb AppsInnovationEntrepreneurship

Think net

Founder & CEO

Jun 2008 – Oct 2012 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Singapore & Bangalore

Think Net was a consulting firm specializing in Digital Marketing solutions and training. We strategized and implemented digital marketing initiatives for global businesses with existing web presence, or those who wanted to venture online. In its time span, Think Net had over 200 clients and trained over 1500 marketing professionals across the Globe.

Digital MarketingConsultingTraining

Photomasti.com

Founder & CEO

Mar 2006 – Mar 2008 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

While in the US, I experienced first hand the pain of sharing digital prints with friends and family back in India. I decided to solve this with PhotoMasti, a digital photo printing and logistics service targeted at Indians residing abroad. Gathered a good user base across the Globe with zero marketing spend.
Things were hunky dory till international players entered the market and priced us out. Having bootstrapped the venture, and due to lack of investor interest owing to a small target market, I had to shut down operations.

Digital PrintingLogisticsEntrepreneurship

Teepsy.com

Founder & CEO

Aug 2004 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore

Conceptualized and bootstrapped one of the first ecommerce ventures in India in the apparel segment. Built on lean management and marketing principles, the company turned profitable within 3 months of launch and got an early exit.

E-commerceMarketing