Hello,
Our inaugural awards - Growth Champions 2021 - has received an overwhelming response! Weâre thrilled to have 200 applicants so far from the best and the brightest startups and scaleups in India. And the pool is growing, with applications across all the award categories including design, product, marketing, and brand. With that in mind, we have extended the deadline to April 26, 2021. So, apply soon and be part of an amazing group of applicants.Â
Introducing our star-studded jury line-up!
âď¸ Ambarish Kenghe (AK) is the VP of Product Management at Google, where he leads Google Pay. AK works with the Google Pay team to popularize digital payments and make it accessible to millions of users in India. Inspired by its success, Google is refreshing its payments strategy across the world. Previously, AK served as the CPO at Myntra where he strengthened and streamlined the product and technology processes that led to Myntraâs exceptional growth. AK is an alumnus of Haas School of Business and IIT Kanpur.Â
âď¸ Arun Pattabhiraman is the Chief Growth Officer at Freshworks, where he is working towards creating a billion-dollar revenue company through a world-class product, marketing, and sales engine. Arun leads the team to build marketing tech stack, cross-channel marketing, and brand. Besides SaaS, he has marketing experience across diverse industries such as Ad-tech, media & entertainment, and telecom. Previously, Arun served as the CMO at InMobi and worked with Hotstar and Airtel. Arun is an alumnus of the Indian School of Business (ISB) and College of Engineering, Anna University.Â
âď¸ Daniel Burka is the Director of Product and Design at the not-for-profit, Resolve to Save Lives, which focuses on solving complex global health problems in simple ways. He works with Simple (an open-source project) to enable hundreds of hospitals (across India, Bangladesh, and Ethiopia) to manage over 200,000 patients with hypertension. Earlier, Daniel spent five years as a Design Partner at Google Ventures, where he worked with companies such as Flatiron Health, Zipline, Farmers Business Network, Blue Bottle Coffee, etc. Before that, Daniel led design at Slack (when it was Glitch) and as a Creative Director at Digg, which pioneered online news sharing and consumption.Â
(Weâll be announcing a few more jury members soon! Be sure to check out our website for more details and updates.)
Learn, share, engage
Since weâre strong believers in learning and growing together, we are launching a Slack community to share knowledge and network with industry leaders. We will be inviting applicants to join this exclusive community of product and growth enthusiasts, experts, and aspirants! Apply now to get an invite.
BYOB: Bring Your Own Buds!
If you know a friend or colleague who would love to participate in Growth Champions, nominate them here and earn some good karma (and exclusive tickets to the awards ceremony).
Please donât hesitate to reach out to us, if you have any questions or need help with any part of the application; weâre only an email away!
Hope to see your applications in our inboxes! Good luck!
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