WBC Team
WBC Team
Aswath Venkataraman
Operating Principal
“The founders and management teams that WestBridge backs are passionate, talented, and driven. All of them are working to transform the industry that they are present in and deserve all the success they get. I love the fact that I get to play a small part in helping them succeed and maximizing their performance.“
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Focus areas:
- Consumer
- Consumer internet
- Retail
About Aswath
Aswath holds a deep passion for helping the consumer and consumer-tech companies of WestBridge in the domains of category management, marketing, and sales. He started his career with Hindustan Unilever Limited, where he spent twelve years across various roles in sales and marketing, including making Surf Excel detergent soap, the company’s top brand. Afterward, he joined Amazon to get first-hand experience of ecommerce. There he was responsible for launching and scaling the CPG private brands business in India, launching over five thousand products across three hundred categories.
Aswath received an MBA from IIM Bengaluru and a B.E. in Electronics Engineering from R.V. College of Engineering, Bengaluru. In his free time he enjoys participating in competitive quizzes.
