Akash Kedia

CEO

Berlin, Berlin, Germany14 yrs 7 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led CheQ to $10M ARR with 1M users.
  • Expanded Trade Republic from 3 to 17 countries.
  • Spearheaded Flipkart's homepage to 170M+ MAU.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce product leader with extensive experience in scaling user growth.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementStrategic ThinkingProduct LeadershipFinancial TechnologyProduct VisionProduct Design

Other Skills

Revenue & Profit GrowthArtificial Intelligence (AI)Team LeadershipBusiness StrategyLeadershipBusiness DevelopmentMarketingProduct DevelopmentManagementProject ManagementUser Experience (UX)Strategic PlanningCommunity EngagementCritical ThinkingUser Research

About

More about Akash on akashkedia.com ✦ Akash has over 16 years of experience in building and scaling product organizations, navigating early-stage startups to established companies through key growth phases. ✦ He is currently leading the Product Teams at N26. ✦ As the CPO at CheQ, Akash led the Product, Design, Data, and Growth teams, driving the fintech app to achieve a $10M ARR and reach operational profitability, all while growing the user base to 1M and achieving 15% MoM growth. ✦ ⁠Before CheQ, Akash played a key role in Trade Republic's expansion, where he oversaw the Growth and International expansion products, helping the company increase its footprint from 3 to 17 countries and grow its user base from 1M to 2M in less than a year. ✦ During his ~6 years at Flipkart, Akash spearheaded Auto Content generation and Personalisation in the pre-Gen AI era and also worked on a wide range of domains across UX, Personalization, Martech, Adtech, Platforms, Payments, and Credit

Experience

14 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 6 mos
Current Experience

N26

Director of Products

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Berlin, Germany · On-site

  • Owning multiple product & revenue lines (PnL ownweship) with a ~100 people team across Product & UX,reporting to the CEO. Pushing each of the product lines into an agentic, AI-led future:
  • Subscriptions, eSIM, and Memberships (+40% revenue)
  • Lending & Mortgages (+80% disbursals)
  • Investments & Savings (6X increase in AUM)
  • Cards & Wallets (Growth engine with seasonal virtual cards)
  • Payments & Multi-Currency (+15% Revenue)
  • Growth, Acquisition, Retention (Reducing CAC by ~50%)
  • The mandate: turn N26 into a bank where every surface such as onboarding, risk, servicing, growth loops, money management is powered by fast, trustworthy, autonomous AI systems.
  • My role is the connective tissue between board vision and hands-on execution and the push to make AI not a feature, but the operating system of the product.
Revenue & Profit GrowthArtificial Intelligence (AI)Team LeadershipProduct VisionStrategic ThinkingProduct Management+8

Cheq

Chief Product Officer

Jan 2022Jan 2024 · 2 yrs · Remote

  • CheQ is a Fintech app in India where users can link all their Credit Cards and track their bills. They can also be reminded of the due dates, pay their bills (all together or individually), and earn rewards for exhibiting good credit behaviour. The app allows users to do more with their credit cards (pay other recurring expenses such as rent and utility bills) and discover more credit products (Personal loans and Credit Cards)
  • CheQ has scaled to 1 million users within 12 months and is on an ARR of $10M.
  • I head all things Product, Design, Data & Growth
Community EngagementProduct LeadershipProduct VisionFinancial TechnologyCritical ThinkingStrategic Planning+8

Trade republic

Growth & UX

Jan 2021Jan 2022 · 1 yr · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  • Trade Republic is Europe's largest neo-broking platform.
  • My role involved co-owning all the growth metrics (acquisitions & MTU/MAU) and launching Trade Republic in all the Euro Zone countries. Primary focus areas were:
  • ✦ Product Charters - Martech, Onboarding / Registration, Activation, Engagement, Retention, UX, Incentives/Perks
  • ✦ International Expansion - Launching Trade Republic in all Euro Zone countries
  • ✦ Metrics - Monthly Acquisitions, MTU/MAU, CAC, countries operated, country growth/market share
  • ✦ Leadership - Leading a cross-functional team of Product Leads, Product Ops, Design, Data, Engineers & Marketers. Building the Product and Product Ops Org with the CPO
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Community EngagementProduct LeadershipProduct VisionFinancial TechnologyCritical Thinking+10

Flipkart

2 roles

Head of Product - Homepage, Growth & Ads

Promoted

Jul 2018Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Flipkart is a Walmart company, a $40B behemoth and India's largest e-commerce platform.
  • I joined the early product team and witnessed multiple phases of hypergrowth and a 20X increase in the product and engineering organisation.
  • As Head of Product for Homepage, Growth and Ads - my primary responsibilities included:
  • ✦ Built products to scale homepage to 170mn+ MAU, contributing to >40% of GMV and >80% of ads revenue
  • ✦ Engaging with and powering 50+ category representative to meet their business goals through the Homepage
  • ✦ Launching and scaling Flipkart's platform in 15 languages to drive organic growth from Tier 2+ regions of India
  • ✦ Launching personalisation and recommendation products to power upsell and cross-sell goals of the business
  • ✦ Launching machine enabled supply yield optimiser - increasing Ads revenue by 60%
  • ✦ Consumer Product POC for the biggest online retail event in India - The Big Billion Days Sale
  • ✦ Leading a cross-functional team
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Business-to-Business (B2B)Product VisionCritical ThinkingUser ResearchProblem Solving+4

Product Lead - Consumer Finance

Jan 2016Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • As Product Lead for Consumer Finance, my role was to build technological capabilities that empowered aspirational Indians to buy high AOV products through instalment-based payment options.
  • ✦ Launched No Cost EMI - India's first 0-cost instalment payment option for e-commerce platforms
  • ✦ Launched Debit Card EMIs - extending short-term credit lines to bank account holders against an electronics purchase on Flipkart - using Debit Cards as a paperless authenticating & authorisation mechanism
  • ✦ Incubated Flipkart Pay Later - Part of the larger team that launched the deferred payment product for Flipkart's users
  • ✦ Launched Flipkart Money - Flipkart's native Semi-Closed wallet (now PhonePe wallet)
  • ✦ Led Integration of UPI with PhonePe ( 1st online merchant in India to support UPI)
Financial TechnologyCritical ThinkingUser ResearchProblem SolvingCommunicationTechnical Understanding+1

Momoe

Core Team Member - Product

Nov 2014Jan 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Momoe was India's first B2C payments platform that enabled QR code-based mobile payments for offline retailers. It was acquired by Shopclues - an e-commerce platform and a unicorn startup
  • As the 3rd employee - I looked after various aspects of Product (consumer & merchant), along with growth. Key aspects included:
  • ✦ Building rails for a semi-closed wallet and integrating that with the app
  • ✦ Native integration with Restaurant and Grocery store POS software to stitch payment and reconciliation loops
  • ✦ Helping scale the team from 4 to 40+ employees in 1 year.
Problem SolvingCommunicationTechnical UnderstandingProduct Design

Gsk consumer healthcare india

Summer Intern

Apr 2013Jun 2013 · 2 mos · Gurgaon

  • Project Title: Levering Horlicks and Boost Equity to win over Quick Service Restaurants (QSR)
  • End Deliverable: Go To Market Strategy for Horlicks and Boost to be a part of the Menu in QSRs
  • ✦ Conducted Research with Subway, Saravana Bhavan, Adyar Ananda Bhavan & Vasudev Adiga’s to find out the Purchase and Consumption patterns of Beverages
  • ✦ Covered 73 restaurants and interviewed over 300 consumers
  • ✦ Mapped the Indian QSR Opportunity and laid out a roadmap for Go To Market Strategy
  • ✦ Co-Created 9 recipes that can be integrated in the menu at QSRs
  • ✦ Conducted a Sampling session with the Management of Saravana Bhavan
  • Received Pre Placement Offer and was adjudged the Best Functional Project
Problem SolvingCommunication

Gobardhan granite, premium granites

New Product Development & Marketing

Apr 2010May 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

  • Led new product development by increasing customer offering from ~10 to 80+ variety of SKUs
Problem SolvingCommunication

Quantum leap

2 roles

Product Development

Promoted

Apr 2009Mar 2010 · 11 mos

Problem SolvingCommunication

Business Coach

May 2008Apr 2009 · 11 mos

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