Ramesh Padala

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India24 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led technology innovation at BCG.
  • Transformed supply chain for Reliance Retail.
  • Co-founded successful wellness and yoga apps.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Retail Tech leader with extensive experience in product management and technology innovation.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipStrategic PlanningProject ManagementTeam BuildingTechnology ManagementData AnalyticsMachine LearningSupply Chain ManagementProduct ManagementProduct Development

Other Skills

InnovationTransformationOperational EfficiencyCross-functional CollaborationGovernance FrameworksSupply Chain TransformationSAPGrowth StrategyUser ExperienceWorkplace WellnessMobile App DevelopmentCustomer EngagementStrategic PartnershipsEngineering ManagementRevenue Management

About

Technology is not a hammer looking for a nail, especially when it’s part of a company’s overall strategy to solve problems. I strongly believe in customer obsessed problem solving and leveraging technology to do that. I am a Managing Director in the Platinion team of BCG. We are a team of 900+ experts spread across the globe and our aim is to extend BCG’s strategic imperative by inventing and developing tech products, platforms and solutions. Prior to this I have had an eclectic career of working at large companies and small, played both hardcore tech roles and pure business management roles. I have been the founding team member of multiple startups. I have also played the CTPO roles at large scaled up organisations like Reliance Retail. I have mentored and invested in a few startups over the last decade, both in the Bay Area and in India. I have also built and helped build large tech teams, organising them for execution and operational excellence. I tweet at https://twitter.com/rameshdot0

Experience

24 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
2 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Boston consulting group (bcg)

Managing Director

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

  • I leverage my extensive experience to drive innovation and transformation at BCG, focusing on technology-driven solutions.
  • Developed and executed multiple projects that enhanced operational efficiencies across various sectors.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to incubate ventures in a rapid-execution model, ensuring successful handovers.
  • Guided pre-IPO companies in building robust tech teams and governance frameworks, facilitating their market readiness.
InnovationTransformationOperational EfficiencyCross-functional CollaborationLeadershipStrategic Planning

Reliance retail

Chief Technology Officer

Dec 2021Aug 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • I was the group CTO for Reliance Retail - which subsumes all retail entities of Reliance - Groceries (Jiomart, RelianceFresh, FreshPik etc), Fashion and lifestyle (Ajio, Trends, Azorte), Electronics (Reliance Digital), Reliance Jewels and all the acquired and operated by Reliance entities, like 7-11, M&S etc
  • My team was responsible for all things cross-cutting - store apps, warehouse solutions, transport stack, Dex (Delivery experience), Returns Experience, RelianceOne Loyalty program and most importantly the Data analytics and ML/AI COE.
  • While I was at Reliance Retail, I worked on a few key initiatives
  • My team supported the entire Data and Analytics charter for all Reliance Retail entities, crunching gigabytes of data every week. While I was there, we launched an ML model factory that was adaptable to the needs of the various entitites with a simple gather data, train, test and deploy methodology that reduced TATs from months to weeks for ML solution rollouts.
  • Designed and implemented a large scale supply chain transformation that involved moving one of the largest SAP instances in Asia from a monolith running on a 2012 version to a multi-site, multi-tenant distributed setup. This has helped the retail businesses become 10X more scalebale and increased resilience by reducing systemwide Sev 1s on a monthly basis to less than 1
  • Oversaw the launch of fully automated warehouses leveraging Addverb technology and SAP EWM. This was instrumental in increasing delivery accuracy and reducing the delivery time for Ajio
  • Launched multiple optimisations on the supply chain, including optimised routing on the middle mile, improved last mile tracking efficiency etc
Data AnalyticsMachine LearningSupply Chain TransformationSAPTechnology Management

More retail limited

CTPO, SVP

Oct 2020Nov 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Leveraging Tech and Product thinking to solve customer problems.

Amazon

Director

Sep 2017Oct 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Led tech and product for multiple streams - Amazon Prime, Delivery Experience(DEX), Returns Experience(RCX) and AdTech
  • Teams based in BLR, Gurgaon and Seattle
  • Helped scale up Prime in India by enabling multiple payment mechanisms for standing instructions and personalised nudges
  • Helped solve the "sir, how do I get to your address" call problem via ML, customer experience interventions translating to a large reduction in "where's my order calls" and improvement in delivery times and promise
  • Solved for the India-specific Ad serving problem for customers and delivered innovative ad products for the Indian market - Amazon Pi a seller platform that enables them to optimise their ad campaigns on Amazon
Product ManagementGrowth StrategyUser Experience

Flexbot.ai (was yogatailor)

Co-founder & CEO

Aug 2016Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Palo Alto

  • flexbot.ai is a workplace wellness bot-based platform. It creates healthy habits like drinking more water, doing more stretches, mindfulness before meetings etc through contextual and timely reminders.
  • We launched our Slack bot in Oct 2016 and had crossed 2000 teams in 9 months. Flexbot was an early partner for the Microsoft Teams launch. Get your wellness bot http://www.flexbot.ai
Workplace WellnessProduct DevelopmentTeam Building

Yogatailorapp.com

Founder and CEO

Dec 2014Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Mountain View

  • Yogatailor is an app (mobile and web) that creates customized yoga and meditation programs based on the customer's ability, time available and progress.
  • Ramesh founded the company and built a team of 25 to help develop the app and attract customers. The app had 100K+ paying customers. The app merged into a more up to date version called flexbot.ai which works on Slack and Microsoft Teams
Mobile App DevelopmentCustomer EngagementProduct Development

Saavn

VP Product & Growth

Apr 2012Apr 2015 · 3 yrs · Mountain View & Mumbai

  • Oversaw all major product releases from 2012 to 2015.
  • Developed Strategic partnerships and alliances with high profile companies in India and the US.
  • Drove user growth to an MAU of 12Million within a short 3 years.
Product DevelopmentStrategic PartnershipsProduct Management

Xoomsys

Director , Product and Engineering

Jan 2004May 2009 · 5 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • As part of the executive team, I reported directly into the CEO.
  • I headed product development with a cross-functional team of 15 employees and we delivered the first cloud-based EDA simulation tool in a record time.
Product DevelopmentEngineering ManagementProduct Management

Synopsys

Sr Manager

Sep 1998Jan 2004 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Mountain View

  • Managed a part of the FastSpice line of products which at that time accounted for $120 MM pa revenue.
Product ManagementRevenue Management

Education

Stanford University

MS — Computer Science

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Bachelor of Technology - BTech

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Electrical and Electronics Engineering

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