Ravi Shankar

CEO

Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory, Malaysia16 yrs 10 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 15+ years of experience in marketing and branding.
  • Transformed AirAsia's marketing into a growth-focused strategy.
  • Successfully launched a high-profile brand campaign.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a MarTech expert with strong leadership in growth marketing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Marketing StrategyBusiness StrategyCustomer ExperienceBrand Strategy

Other Skills

Marketing CommunicationsMarketing TechnologyCreative DevelopmentStrategic PartnershipsBusiness PlanningDigital TransformationLeadershipArtificial Intelligence (AI)Content StrategyDigital StrategyDigital MarketingWeb AnalyticsGoogle AnalyticsOnline MarketingProgrammatic Buying

About

At the intersection of Marketing, Business, Technology & Data Ravi is a versatile branding & AI marketing professional with a diverse skill set that spans across branding, customer experience, data science, AI, growth, technology, and commercial. He possesses a unique combination of marketing, business, and technical expertise that enables him to connect the dots between business needs and develop a marketing strategy that complements business and product strategies. With over 15 years of experience in the marketing & branding industry, Ravi has a proven track record of success in driving growth, improving customer satisfaction, and increasing revenue for companies in the APAC Region. Well-noted works for Ravi Shankar Mallavarapu include launching a brand campaign for CARSOME with legendary footballer Eric Cantona as the brand ambassador, which raised awareness in the SEA region. Another critical milestone of Ravi is his role in transforming AirAsia's traditional marketing team into a growth marketing team. During this period, the company pivoted from the first aviation company to a super App. With strong commercial acumen, Ravi can understand and communicate the business impact of marketing initiatives, making him an effective leader and partner for cross-functional teams. His unique skill set allows him to bring a fresh perspective to marketing efforts and deliver tangible results; if you want to understand more about Ravi, read his LinkedIn recommendations. (This section is mostly for algorithms to find me. If you are human, ignore the list) Business Skills: • Business Strategy • Digital Transformation • P&L Responsibility and Management • Commercial Strategy • Marketing Research • Leadership and team management Branding Skills: • Brand Strategy • Brand Campaigns • Creative Development • Creative AI Tools & Strategy Marketing Skills: • Marketing AI Tools & Strategy • Marketing Technology • Marketing Strategy • Media Planning Digital Marketing Skills: • Performance Marketing • Adtech & programmatic • CRM & Database marketing • Search engine optimization (SEO) • Search Engine Marketing (SEM) • Affiliate Marketing • Marketing Automation • Content Marketing • Conversion rate optimization (CRO) • Mobile App Marketing • App Attribution & Deep Linking Data & Technology Skills: • Data Science • Data Analytics • Data Engineering • Product Management • Product Roadmap Development • Web and Product Analytics Customer Experience or CX Skills: • Customer Journey Mapping • NPS Implementation • CSAT Implementation • Feedback Loops

Experience

16 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
2 yrs
Current Experience

Airasia move

CMO

Apr 2024Present · 2 yrs · Greater Kuala Lumpur · On-site

Marketing CommunicationsMarketing StrategyBusiness Strategy

Carsome

CMO

Jan 2022Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Marketing StrategyBusiness StrategyCustomer ExperienceMarketing CommunicationsMarketing Technology

Airasia

3 roles

Chief Growth Officer

Promoted

Nov 2020Jan 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

Strategic PartnershipsCustomer ExperienceBusiness PlanningBusiness Strategy

Group Head of Digital Marketing & Analytics

Promoted

Jan 2019Nov 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

Group Head of Digital Marketing

Jan 2017Jan 2019 · 2 yrs

Lion & lion digital agency

Regional Head of Performance & Analytics

Dec 2014Dec 2016 · 2 yrs · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Google

Campaign Management Lead

Jan 2013Nov 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • I'm responsible for helping my clients scale their media buying and improve their digital marketing performance by leveraging products within the DoubleClick platforms – DoubleClick Bid Manager, DoubleClick Campaign Manager.
  • I use advanced data analysis techniques like predictive analytics and machine learning to optimize and find patterns in campaign performance data.
  • Also responsible for managing group of campaign managers to help and improve their skill set and provide better service to clients

Sulekha.com

Online Marketing Specialist

Oct 2011Dec 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • I'm responsible for the ROI of advertising spend on Sulekha classifieds section.
  • Creates digital marketing strategy and allocates budgets accordingly to different channels like search marketing, display marketing, email marketing, social media and affiliate marketing.
  • Constantly monitors the performance of these channels by analysing website traffic and provides optimization suggestions to respective POCs.

Yahoo

Creative strategist

Aug 2010Oct 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • My major role her is to define online marketing strategies of Yahoo's clients in search & display marketing divisions. Also, responsible for monitoring editorial policies of clients ads and categorize the yahoo search query database.
  • Played an important in the project of Yahoo & Bing search marketing alliance by talking to clients about migration and moving the accounts from Yahoo search marketing platform to Bing Ads platform.

Clearlead inc

Online Marketing Specialist

Jul 2008Jan 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Started my career in the field of online marketing with SEO, Google AdWords and Google Analytics. Responsible for both on-page and off-page optimization for client websites. Expert in keyword research and site research for PPC.
  • Implementing, monitoring & reporting website traffic to client and make changes to the campaigns accordingly.

Education

International School of Engineering (INSOFE)

Data Analytics & Optimization — Machine Learning

Jan 2014Jan 2014

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

B.Tech — Computer Science

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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