Naren Ravula is VP and Head of Product Strategy and Deployment at Flipkart. He leads Product Strategy across the Flipkart portfolio, Flipkart Labs – Flipkart group’s incubation arm for emerging technologies and Strategy Deployment, including the Strategic and Technical Program Management teams.

Prior to Flipkart, Naren was Head of Product Strategy at NetApp Inc and Sr. Dir of Product Strategy at Salesforce. He brings diverse experience across Product Development, Product Management and Strategy/Advisory. Naren’s earlier roles include stints as an Analyst at Intel Capital and in the Technology Media and Telecom Investment Banking team at UBS. Naren started his career as a chip design engineer working on several generations of Intel Microprocessors.

He holds an MBA degree from the University of California, Berkeley’s Hass School of Business and degrees in Electronics and Computer Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka and University of Colorado, Boulder.