Kedar Ravangave — CEO
Some marketers build campaigns. A few build brands. Fewer still build the systems that make brands unstoppable. Kedar Ravangave has done all three at Kotak Mahindra Bank, Amazon India, and Marico across financial services, e-commerce, and FMCG, over two decades. At Kotak Mahindra Bank, as Head of Marketing for Consumer and Commercial Banking, Kedar is driving one of the most ambitious marketing transformations in Indian financial services. He repositioned a 40-year-old institution for a new generation through the Hausla Hai Toh Ho Jayega brand platform and simultaneously building AURA, a semi-autonomous multi-agent AI system that runs Kotak's end-to-end marketing function. AURA is not an experiment. It is a production-grade AI architecture one of the most advanced deployments of applied AI in Indian marketing automating, orchestrating, and optimising at the scale of one of India's largest private sector banks. At Amazon India, Kedar did not manage categories he created them. Over a decade, he launched and owned Amazon Prime, Amazon Fashion, Amazon Fresh, and Amazon Pay in India taking each from zero to scale, building the brand, the proposition, the marketing playbook, and the customer base from the ground up. He launched the Great Indian Festival and Prime Day India now the two largest retail events in the country. He created the Apni Dukan positioning and Deliver Love campaign work that transformed Amazon from a transactional platform into a brand Indians felt something for. He built Studio CRICKET, Amazon's in-house regional content production engine, and MPAM, a proprietary marketing operations platform. Total marketing investment managed: over ₹1,000 crore. The playbooks he wrote are still in use. At Marico, he built the craft consumer insight, brand management, and the discipline of building brands that live and last in the physical world. The foundation that made everything else possible. Recognised as Pitch CMO: Tech-Forward CMO 2026 and SIBM Alumni of the Year 2026. 3x Ironman finisher. Summited peaks above 6,000 metres. Brand Transformation · AI for Marketing · Generative AI · Multi-Agent AI Systems · Agentic Marketing · Large Language Models · CMO · Chief Marketing Officer · BFSI Marketing · E-commerce Marketing · Category Creation · D2C Marketing · Content at Scale · Marketing Automation · MarTech · Growth Marketing · FMCG Marketing · Go-to-Market Strategy · Marketing Operations · Brand Strategy · Consumer Marketing
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic marketer with expertise in E-commerce and Financial Services.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 19 yrs 7 mos
Skills
- Digital Marketing
- Brand Strategy
- Brand Development
- Sales Strategy
- Brand Activation
- Brand Management
- Marketing Management
- Brand Awareness
- Fmcg Sales
- General Management
Career Highlights
- Led marketing transformation at Kotak Mahindra Bank.
- Launched major brands at Amazon India.
- Recognized as Tech-Forward CMO 2026.
Work Experience
Kotak Mahindra Bank
Head of Marketing (1 yr 8 mos)
Amazon
Sr Marketing Manager, CE/PC, Fashion & Events (2 yrs)
Head Brand & Category Marketing, Amazon India (Amazon, Prime, Pay, Fashion, Fresh & Amazon Specials) (9 yrs 4 mos)
Sr. Marketing Manager, Consumer Electronics & Wireless Devices (1 yr)
Marico Ltd.
Brand Activation Manager (1 yr)
ASM (2 yrs)
Management Trainee (1 yr 6 mos)
Senior Brand Manager (4 yrs 11 mos)
Summer Internship (2 mos)
Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
Marketing (1 yr 8 mos)
Wipro Technologies
Project Engineer (2 yrs)
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Senior Project Engineer (2 mos)
Education
at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
B. Tech at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur
HSC at Holy Cross English High School
