Flipkart ropes in Ravi Garikipati as entrepreneur in residence Ecommerce player Flipkart has appointed Ravi Garikipati as ‘Entrepreneur in Residence’. Flipkart says that this is a newly created position in the company and Garikipati in his new role will be working closely with top management including Sachin, Binny and Mukesh Bansal on new and high impact business projects. "Ravi will focus on driving innovative changes for these projects, which is a mix of new independent and existing businesses. His first assignment will be to help Flipkart scale up their new ads initiative," Flipkart said in statement. Readers will remember that the online marketplace in March bought mobile advertising firm AdIQuity for an undisclosed amount. Before joining Flipkart, Garikipati was the head of [24]7 Innovation Labs, Ravi was responsible for overall strategy and development of all products. Prior to that, Ravi was the SVP at Vendio, which was…
