Naren Ravula

Naren Ravula is the VP, Head of Product Strategy & Deployment at FlipKart. Prior to joining FlipKart, Naren spent two years at Salesforce as the Senior Director, Product Strategy & Operations. In this role, Naren drove key initiatives across the entire Salesforce portfolio including B2B and B2C products.

Before Salesforce, Naren spent five years at NetApp as the Director, Product Strategy & Management. In this role, Naren led a team of Product Managers and was responsible for assessing broad Customer, Technology and Competitive trends. Naren also determined the implication and timing of trends and made Build, Buy/Invest or Partner recommendations.

Naren has also driven Product Management for key technology incubations, managed the Strategic Product Planning Process for a $6B storage leader, and assisted the EVP/Staff on Portfolio Planning and AOP decisions. In addition, Naren has managed Strategic Pricing and Licensing projects, worked with line of business on select strategic initiatives, and built relationships across the Startup and Venture communities.

Naren Ravula has an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business. Naren also has a BE from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka and an MS from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Naren Ravula reports to Jeyandran Venugopal, Chief Product & Technology Officer. They work with Sridhar Govardha - VP, Head of Information Security, Gaurav Mathur - VP, Design, and Viraj Patel - VP, Engineering.