Ravi Garikipati

He is an entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience mostly in technology and executive leadership roles. He is a board member and advisor to many late stage startups and an active angel investor in deepTech, finTech and consumerTech startups.

Prior to co-founding Davinta, As a CTO at Flipkart, defined and executed Shared Technology & Services vision and roadmap - helping Flipkart group reach new heights through highly scalable cloud infrastructure, robust multi-tenant platforms and highly optimised application architecture. Also founded Fintech as a new vertical with a mission to offer financial products to 100s of millions of underserved and unserved Indians by leveraging data, digital distribution and Technology. Launched two unique loan products for the underserved at scale to address affordability.

Prior to Flipkart he was President and Chief Technology Officer at 247.ai Innovation Labs, a sequoia funded company Campbell, CA/Bangalore where he led global product and technology groups to build one of the largest omni-channel customer acquisition & engagement platform driven by predictive modelling hosted in the cloud. He holds a number of patents in omni-channel predictive experience for his industry leading work.

Ravi also held various senior engineering management positions at Oracle and Covansys, where he gained extensive experience in building scalable enterprise application architectures and services.

Ravi holds a Master of Science degree in Software Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India and a Masters degree in Management from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India.