Gnana Praveen P

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

Founded Vizag's first midnight food delivery chain.
Scaled Ninjacart's operations to 30 tons/day in 90 days.
Increased fulfillment percentage from 96% to 99.5%.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a growth-focused entrepreneur with extensive experience in food delivery and logistics.

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About

Entrepreneur | Explorer | Autodidact At 19, founded an ed startup to take on the education system - tried fast, failed fast. By 20, I founded Chef's Night Out, Vizag’s first midnight food delivery chain, which became a local success. For 4 years, I headed the business - everything from marketing to operations before making a exit. After some time in the classroom (MBA), I dove back into the startup world - led business expansion, built teams, and have driven growth at Ninjacart, Swiggy(SuprDaily), Uber and now Meesho. I’m an entrepreneur at heart, drawn to challenges that I love taking on head on - while having fun in the process. You can reach me at pgprveen3@gmail.com

Experience

10 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

11 mos

Current Experience

Meesho

Seller Growth

Jul 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

Practo

Associate Director - CEO's Office

Jan 2025 – Jun 2025 · 5 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

Uber

Manager - EMEA Strategy

May 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · Amsterdam · On-site

Swiggy

2 roles

Senior Manager - Strategy

Promoted

Oct 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

Manager - Strategy

Feb 2021 – Oct 2021 · 8 mos

Building Supply Chain to Enable Micro Deliveries through SuprDaily.

Ninjacart

2 roles

Regional Business Head

Promoted

Mar 2020 – Jan 2021 · 10 mos

Scaled the Satellite cluster to 30 tons/day with 4000 customer base and 75 member sales team in 90 days.
Strategized and executed multiple projects such as Satellite City Project, Standalone model and Local
Procurement model.
Worked with Category, Central LM and Product teams to set up and streamline the new processes.
Worked in Profitability Project to develop and put cost controlling processes in place to ensure better
CM1 through efficient utilization of resources and controlling logistics, labour and dump costs.

Manager - Strategy & Projects

Apr 2019 – Mar 2020 · 11 mos

Single thread owner of First Mile operations team of 100+ strength which moved 150T of fruits/veggies on daily basis from farmers to costumers in 24 hours. It consisted of
15+ Collection Centres - wherein Ops team does quality check of SKUs, grades the material and does
GRN in crates.
Fulfillment Centre - Mother of city operations. SKUs from CCs are segregated, batchted, verified and
dispatched to respective DCs.
Non-LML team - which took care of optimal route planning, vendor management and tracking of a fleet of 50+ NLML vehicles.
Identified bottlenecks in routine processes in FC operations and initiated corrective measures for
standardization which increased the fulfillment% from 96% to 99.5%.

Chef's nightout

2 roles

Founder

May 2014 – May 2018 · 4 yrs

Business Head

May 2014 – May 2018 · 4 yrs

Co- Founded ‘Chef’s NightOut’, which is the 1st midnight food delivery chain/ start up in Visakhapatnam.
Worked in planning and heading marketing drives, wherein the sales rocketed by around 500% under my watch within 2 years.
Managed P&L and ensured increasing positive cash flows for more than 3 consecutive years.
Supervised End to end operations which included
o Supervision of managers, kitchen and delivery staff.
o Negotiating with vendors/logistics partners and Handling vendor relationships
o Handling all escalations and making sure best customer service is delivered through internal marketing.
Was responsible for developing standard operating procedures for logistics and quality control.
Formulated and executed delivery operations to optimize delivery times (Wq) by 20% in order to adapt to rapidly changing demand.
Devised roadmap to expand the CNO delivery systems in to other major cities like Vijayawada and Hyderabad.