Ravi Chandrasekaran

Experience

Manta Media

VP Product 2014 - 2015 (about 1 year)

Consulting role for strategy development, product team leadership for later stage startup in the small business space.

Exit

Biba

VP Product 2012 - 2014 (over 1 year)

Early employee at small communication startup. Led expansion to unified communications strategy, resulting in successful acquisition.

TripIt

VP Product 2011 (6 months)

Consulting on strategic expansion from media revenue to personalized, transactional bookings.

Exit

Hotwire

VP Product 2001 - 2011 (almost 10 years)

Began as individual contributor - sole dedicated resource as PM/Analyst for car rental product, responsible for supply negotiations, pricing strategy, inventory expansion.... more

Viant

Consultant 2000 - 2001 (10 months)

Led functional design efforts for Fortune 500 clients. Work included early internet-enabled appliances and mobile efforts.

Manugistics

Data Scientist 1997 - 2000 (over 2 years)

Developed pricing optimization and decision support software ("Target Pricing") to provide recommendations for large sales teams. Work included leading software development... more

Exit

Sabre

Data Scientist 1995 - 1997 (almost 2 years)

Lead statistical modeling for statistical pricing application in the trucking/logistics field. Built production software for data management, analysis, and recommendations.

Employee

TripIt, Hotwire, Viant, Sabre, Biba, Manugistics, Manta Media

Education

About

Achievements

- Led product team of 35. Five of them are now product executives
- Tripled revenue of a mature product. Designed a new media brand.
- Launched new revenue line, grew to 10% of company profits in 1 year.
- Built production trucking forecast models and pricing recommenders.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Product Management Analytics E-Commerce Product Development Start-Ups Software Development SaaS Cross-Functional Team Leadership Data Analysis Data Science Machine Learning

Locations

San Francisco Oakland

Ravi Chandrasekaran

Product strategy + data science.

- Led product team of 35. Five of them are now product executives - Tripled revenue of a mature product. Designed a new media brand. - Launched new revenue line, grew to 10% of company profits in 1 year. - Built production trucking forecast models and pricing recommenders.

- Led product team of 35. Five of them are now product executives
- Tripled revenue of a mature product. Designed a new media brand.
- Launched new revenue line, grew to 10% of company profits in 1 year.
- Built production trucking forecast models and pricing recommenders.