Ram Deshpande

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India23 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 20 years of leadership experience across multiple industries.
Successfully led digital transformation initiatives in e-commerce.
Expert in patent research and intellectual property management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in E-commerce and Digital Marketing with expertise in Intellectual Property.

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Team ManagementDigital StrategyE-commerceMarket ResearchPatentsIntellectual PropertyBusiness StrategyStart-upsStrategyAnalysisBusiness DevelopmentDue DiligenceCompetitive IntelligenceMergers & AcquisitionsTechnology Transfer

About

Experience of over two decades in leadership positions in various industries (fintech, marketing, advertising, e-commerce, hi-tech research and KPO) and multiple geographies (India, China, and Japan); Extensive experience of marketing, brand building, advertising, and communication in India; Hands-on experience of developing and executing digital strategies and digital transformation; Chief Marketing Officer at Lendingkart VP of Digital at Cheil Business Unit Head at Snapdeal (Jasper Infotech Pvt. Ltd.), an e-commerce marketplace; AVP and Head of the Visual Merchandising at Snapdeal; managing a team of over 120 people responsible for all sale events and customer engagement initiatives; Led the setting up of a Japanese JV between Evalueserve, Sony Corporation and Hazuki International; Managed large teams of research professionals in India and China providing research services to global clients.

Experience

23 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 5 mos

Current Experience

Self-employed

Podcast host "The Thing With This One Is"

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

"The Thing With This One Is" is a podcast where we dive deep into the specifics of businesses and creative pursuits. Things that are improving our work and life. We talk to creators, inventors‌, business and thought leaders, and understand the nuances of their activities.
When a creator, for example, is asked about some specific aspect of their work, they typically start explaining by saying "the thing with this one is..."

Lendingkart

2 roles

Chief Marketing Officer

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Senior Vice President and Head of Marketing

Sep 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

Cheil india

Vice President, Digital

Jun 2018 – Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Gurgaon, India

Operations and business management for Cheil Digital, one of the largest digital agencies in India,.
Focusing on Samsung's digital marketing, advertising and communications in India across all business categories.
Special focus on online marketing and e-commerce services.

Snapdeal

2 roles

Business Unit Head

Jan 2017 – May 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

Led the digital strategy, planning and operations of the Kids business unit (BU); responsibilities included:
Seller and inventory management: improving availability of merchandise and reducing costs;
Sale planning: carrying out online sale events and digital campaigns for the BU;
Assortment and brand management: providing assortment width for a variety of customers;
People management: managing a team of 30 people in a challenging environment.
Achieved BU level profitability within six months

AVP - Merchandising, Category Management

Apr 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

Snapdeal is one of the largest ecommerce marketplaces in India based in Gurgaon/Delhi
Centralised, structured and led the visual merchandising for all categories at Snapdeal; this team had 120 people across the following functions:
Merchandising and online campaign execution: maintenance of over 50 web/app storefronts and promotions of ~60 categories and ~700 sub-categories; digital launches of ~5 brands per month;
Strategy and planning: visibility calendarisation, personalisation, and planning basis affinity data; improved homepage conversion by 30% over a six-month period; strategy coordinated with other internal teams (devops, product design, marketing) to effectively track internal projects;
Analytics for sale strategies and live reporting: enabling data-backed decision making as a part of the business process with interventions for promotion and user journey improvements;
Content writing: execution of a process to improve ~20,000 product pages per month;
Discoverability: catalog management for continuous improvement in filter/search coverage;
Creative digital design: 50 people strong ‘banner factory’ to delivery ~300 designs and pages per day.
Achieved 40% productivity improvement by implementing process rigour; all guidelines, internal communication steps and processes were written down with clear definitions of ownership and TAT.
Steered a large team to execute multiple campaigns with zero downtime; all events/campaigns taken live at 12 midnight with zero errors; examples: Unbox Diwali Sale 2016, Snapdeal Home Weekends; Republic Day Sale and the like.

Evalueserve

2 roles

Vice President, Intellectual Property and R&D Services

Promoted

Jun 2012 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

Managed a team of over 160 engineers engaged in hi-tech patent research;
Productised patent licensing services for better utilization and quality: 35% of BU revenues at 30% EBITDA;
Executed internal merger of multiple operations groups to reach utilization of 80%;
Set up and ran innovation teams for workshop-based business development with clients in Europe, US and Asia; developed solutions for critical technology and innovation related problems.

Senior Manager, Intellectual Property, India

Jul 2002 – Sep 2006 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Managed one of the IP groups in the India office of Evalueserve, a KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing) firm.
Evalueserve provides customized Business Information services (Business Research, Market Research, Investment Research, Data Analytics) and Intellectual Property services from operations bases in India, China and Chile. We've grown at about 80-90% per year since launch in 2000.

Evalueserve business consulting (shanghai) co., ltd.

Associate Vice President, Intellectual Property, China

Sep 2006 – Jun 2012 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Shanghai City, China

Started and ran a Evalueserve's IP China center for providing Asian language patent research services to clients across the world. Formed a team that specialised in searching and analyzing Chinese, Japanese and Korean patent (as well as non-patent) literature and providing the analysis in English.
Played various roles in the organisation including ops management, business development, marketing, and people management.
Involved in the management of the China office for various policy and strategy decisions and external relationships; built the next layer of leadership team comprising local talent.