Ravindra Babu Garikipati
Independent Director
Ravi Garikipati is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in technology and business leadership roles spanning e-commerce, deep tech, fintech and consumer tech businesses. He is also an active angel investor, board member and advisor.
Ravi is Independent Director at Axis Asset Management, guiding the team in building a digital transformation agenda for the business.
As an Independent Director at 5Paisa Capital, he is guiding the leadership team in building a highly personalized and scalable Trading and Discount Brokerage Platform for retail investors. As Advisor to ICICI Lombard General Insurance, he is helping in their digital transformation across several areas including customer engagement, CRM, technology infrastructure scale-up and user experience.
He co-founded Davinta, a tech driven NBFC where his focus was on digital financial inclusion at the bottom of the pyramid, specializing in the financial services industry, providing breakthrough FinServ and FinTech solutions.
Earlier, as Chief Technology Officer at Flipkart, he defined and executed shared technology & services vision and roadmap with focus on cloud infrastructure, platform engineering and overall application architecture for the company.
He was President & CTO at 247.ai Innovation Labs, leading global product and technology groups to build one of the largest omni-channel customer acquisition & engagement platforms driven by predictive modelling hosted in the cloud. Ravi held various senior engineering management positions at Oracle and Covansys. He has patents in omni-channel predictive experience. Ravi holds a Master of Science degree in Software Engineering and a Master’s in Management from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India.
