Apurva Chamaria

Head of Startups & Venture Capital, India

Apurva serves as the Head of Startups & Venture Capital @ Google India. Former SVP & Chief of Staff to CEO & MD of Tech Mahindra.

Apurva has also served as Chief Revenue Officer at RateGain, world's leading SaaS player in travel and hospitality Apurva led RateGain from 20 Mn to 63 Mn ARR in 32 months.

In his previous stint at HCL, he led global corporate marketing and was responsible for brand marketing, employer brand, employee marketing, thought-leadership, digital marketing, analytics, finance and marcom. Other roles at HCL included being a part of the CEO’s office and being a Sales Director at HCL America.

Prior to moving into sales, Apurva was the Global Head of Marketing and Strategy for Enterprise Applications (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, ECMP, I V & VS, Mainframe and Mid-range, Business Intelligence, IT Consulting) leading a geographically distributed team of marketing managers. As a part of the leadership team Apurva worked to successfully identify, acquire and integrate Axon Group Plc (acquisition worth GBP 441 million). He was also involved in setting up the marketing organization, processes and systems in HCL and in the initial days worked as the Category Manager for Lifesciences & Retail.

Apurva also has pharmaceutical industry experience having worked in various sales and marketing positions at Ranbaxy Laboratories (now Sun Pharma). He frequently speaks at various industry conferences like Sales Performance Management, LinkedIn Tech Connect, Microsoft Leaders Speak, ACMP Change Management, and premier B-School events at ISB, IIM-A, IIM-Raipur, FMS, IIMC, IMI, MICA, Great Lakes etc. He was made a Fellow of the All-India Management Association (AIMA) in 2021.

Specialties: Business Strategy, Sales and Marketing Strategy & Operations, Account Management and Client Servicing, Brand Management & Integrated Marketing Communications, Digital Marketing, Sales and Marketing Training, Teaching at B-Schools.