Vipul Bathwal

CEO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India18 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Transformative leadership in AI and automation.
  • Proven track record in scaling businesses effectively.
  • Expertise in building high-performance teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a growth-oriented leader in E-commerce and technology-driven business transformation.

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StrategyFinancial ModelingBusiness DevelopmentStart-upsBusiness StrategyEntrepreneurshipInvestment BankingPrivate EquityCorporate FinanceValuationProduct ManagementFinancial AnalysisCross-functional Team LeadershipAnalyticsE-commerce

About

Growth-focused CEO - transforming businesses through AI & automation, driving scale with focus on unit-economics, and building high-performance teams Management professional with an MBA in Finance & strategy and a Bachelors in Computer Science & Engineering Specialties: Business transformation / New venture creation / E-commerce / Private Equity / Venture Capital / Business Models

Experience

18 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 10 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Aza fashions

Chief Executive Officer

Dec 2021Mar 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Gaana

2 roles

VP - Podcast & Monetization Products

Jan 2020Sep 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Podcasts - Content & product
  • Ads - Product roadmap & revenue
  • Subscription - Product roadmap & revenue

VP - Strategy & Monetization Products

Feb 2018Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Own the strategy & revenue initiatives for the music streaming business of Times Internet
  • Content strategy, Podcasts, Ads product roadmap & revenue, Subscription product roadmap & revenue

Times internet - digital news

Head - Strategy & Planning

Jul 2016Jan 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Own strategy, planning & revenue initiatives for the digital news business of Times Internet

Instafrsh (previously idelivr)

Co Founder

Mar 2015Mar 2016 · 1 yr · India

  • Built a team of 30+ in technology and operations
  • Complete ownership of business-ops & product-management
  • Achieved a M-o-M growth of >50% with minimal marketing budgets
  • Instrumental in raising seed-funding for the venture

Xolo

Business Head - HIVE & E-commerce

Oct 2014Mar 2015 · 5 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Owned the e-commerce & online-only brand initiative for XOLO smartphones - grew the online smartphone volume for XOLO by 10x in a span of 4 months
  • Initiated deep-strategic partnerships with content & services players in the ecosystem for HIVE which is a Cyanogen-mod like custom-ROM on Android for Xolo phones

Gobol.in

Business Head

Oct 2012Sep 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Part of the founding team - set up the e-commerce business for Attero to sell refurbished electronic products from absolute scratch
  • Built & managed a team of 35+ in technology, product, marketing, operations & customer support
  • Owned the product-management, analytics, marketing, operations, PnL, & revenue for the ecommerce business
  • Achieved customer-acquisition-cost of <4% (of revenue) in a span of 6 months and grew revenue at >50% M-o-M
  • Defined the overall strategy & set processes across teams to drive a seamless consumer experience for the business

Flipkart

2 roles

AVP – Business Head (Mobile, Consumer Electronics, IT, Home appliances & other categories)

Mar 2011Jun 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Designed the organization structure and built a team of 50+ involved in category management, business-development, brand alliances, content management and sourcing as part of Letsbuy (acquired by Flipkart in March ‘12)
  • Part of the core team - owned the sales, PnL, selection, pricing and procurement for all product-categories listed on the platform contributing to revenues of few hundred crores per annum
  • Owned strategic brand relationships and supply-chain across categories; responsible for increasing the number of brands on the platform by 30X with close to 450 vendors across India in a span of 12 months
  • Grew the product selection by 10X and transactions-per-day by 30X in a span of 12 months
  • Drove requirements across technology and product teams on usability, SEO, ERP, Content management (CMS)
  • Drove strategies and processes across various teams like marketing, warehouse, logistics, and customer support to define and drive substantial parts of customer experience for the respective categories
  • Prepared business cases for category-specific initiatives targeted at improving category experience and partnered with the appropriate cross-functional teams to deliver them
  • Established catalog data quality metrics and drove continuous improvements to help customers find & select products

Business Head (Mobile & accessories category)

Mar 2010Mar 2011 · 1 yr

  • Launched the first non-media category (mobile phones) on flipkart from absolute scratch
  • Owned the selection, content, pricing, revenue, PnL & strategic brand-relationships for the business
  • Grew the business at the compounded monthly rate of ~60% (by value) contributing to ~30% of Flipkart’s revenues
  • Set business-processes & strategies across various functions like customer-support, marketing, logistics, operations, & procurement to drive seamless consumer-experience for the category

Perella weinberg partners

Associate - Private Equity

Dec 2008Aug 2009 · 8 mos · Austin, Texas Area

  • Private Equity fund investing in real return assets
  • Managed all stages of due diligence, conduct fund manager interviews & ongoing performance monitoring for investments in infrastructure, real estate, energy and commodities
  • Developed and sourced new investment ideas, formulate hedging strategies using derivatives, recommend asset allocation changes and portfolio exposures in the invested asset classes
  • Conducted detailed financial modeling (cash flow, return and sensitivity analysis) to underwrite co-investment in a global industrial Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) portfolio
  • Closed a co-investment deal in infrastructure space – negotiated the term-sheet & deal structure
  • Prepared and presented proposals to the investment committee for capital allocations

Intel

Tech Marketing Lead

Jan 2004Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

Delphi automotive systems

Software Engineer

Jan 2002Jan 2004 · 2 yrs

Education

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) — Finance & Strategy

Jan 2006Jan 2008

Texas McCombs School of Business

MBA Exchange Student for the Fall Semester of Second Year — Entrepreneurship and Small Business Finance

Jan 2007Jan 2007

CFA

CFA (USA) - Level 1

Jan 2009Jan 2009

Visvesvaraya Technological University

BE — Computer Science & Engineering

Jan 1998Jan 2002

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