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title: "Dinesh Arora - Marketing Head - Fractional in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Dinesh Arora, Senior Marketing Leader | CMO / SVP Marketing | ₹200Cr+ P&Ls | E-commerce · Fintech · EdTech based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude code, gemini, and github copilot."
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# Dinesh Arora on Tal

## Headline

Senior Marketing Leader \| CMO / SVP Marketing \| ₹200Cr\+ P&Ls \| E\-commerce · Fintech · EdTech

## About

17\+ years building and scaling marketing engines across e\-commerce, fintech, and edtech\. Reported directly to founders and CEOs across six senior roles — with board and investor presentations at BrightCHAMPS and TenderCuts\. Track record of owning ₹200Cr\+ marketing P&Ls, building director\-level teams, and driving business\-level outcomes\. The proof: → BrightCHAMPS: Grew company annual revenue from ₹84Cr to ₹150Cr\. Led marketing and pre\-sales across 11 markets with a director\-level team of 6\. → Angel Broking: Took new account opens from 2,000 to 40,000 per month — 20× growth\. Research contributed to the platform's evolution into Angel One\. → TenderCuts: 2\.5× revenue growth and 20× quick\-commerce scale before the company ceased operations\. → BrightCHAMPS: 9× non\-paid revenue growth\. Shifted acquisition from 80% paid dependency to balanced channel mix\. I operate at the intersection of brand strategy, performance architecture, and P&L accountability — with cross\-functional reach into pre\-sales, product, and business strategy\. Currently advising founders across e\-commerce, fintech, and edtech while pursuing my next full\-time CMO / SVP Marketing mandate\. Open to: Bengaluru · Remote · International

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude code

gemini

github copilot

lovable

meta

## Work experience

Marketing Head \- Fractional at Independent Consultant, Jan 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Strategic marketing advisory to founders and leadership teams across e\-commerce, fintech, and edtech — while pursuing my next full\-time CMO / SVP Marketing mandate\. Active mandates: → Univest \(fintech, India\) — brand strategy and growth architecture → DuringDays \(e\-commerce, Australia\) — performance architecture and channel mix → ShopDeck \(D2C platform, India\) — growth and brand reset \+ 8 more across edtech and D2C Earlier advisory: mCaffeine, Kissht, MonkTrader, AganyaKreation, Kingdom of Chess, Bower School\. Open to full\-time CMO / SVP Marketing roles — Bengaluru, remote, or international\.

VP \- Global Marketing at BrightCHAMPS, Dec 2022 \- Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ₹100Cr\+ marketing P&L \| 11 countries \| Director\-level leadership team of 6 \| Total org of 100\+ → Grew company annual revenue from ₹84Cr to ₹150Cr during tenure — nearly doubling business scale → Built and led a director\-level marketing and pre\-sales team of 6 across 11 markets; presented strategy and outcomes to board and investors → Co\-architected a Harvard partnership with the CEO — anchoring category trust in the parent\-buyer market → Consolidated brand portfolio from 40 markets to 11 — concentrated investment where the business could win → Shifted global acquisition engine off paid dependency — non\-paid revenue grew 9× during tenure; channel contribution rose from 20% to 48% → Grew retention revenue 3\.8× through trust\-led lifecycle programs → Improved trial\-to\-paid conversion from 9% to 16% → Improved blended ROAS 2× through channel\-mix rebalancing → Co\-led soft launch of math category — acquired 400 students in 3 months

VP \- Growth & Revenue at TenderCuts \- Farm Fresh Meats, Sep 2021 \- Dec 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Company ceased operations in December 2022\. Reported to COO\. Presented growth strategy and outcomes to board and investors\. → Delivered 2\.5× revenue growth through integrated brand, performance, and hyperlocal acquisition → Scaled quick\-commerce from ₹15L/month \(single market\) to ₹3Cr/month across Chennai, Hyderabad, and Bangalore — 20× growth → Increased repeat customer contribution to 60% through trust\-led lifecycle programs

SVP Marketing at Spartan Poker, Sep 2019 \- Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Led brand, growth, and category leadership for India's leading online poker platform under heavy regulatory constraints on paid advertising\. Reported to founders\. → Grew retention 2\.2× and retention revenue 150% by building an in\-house creator and organic acquisition engine, made retention the primary growth lever where paid was structurally restricted → Built organic and community channels contributing 40% of overall business, reducing structural dependency on restricted paid media → Created India Poker Championship \(IPC\) as India's premier poker tournament — drove 100% uplift in deposits and gameplay across online and offline activation → Influenced and co\-led the launch of AIO Games — diversifying the platform beyond poker to broaden category reach and reduce regulatory concentration risk → Led end\-to\-end activation of Delhi Bulls \(Abu Dhabi T10\) team sponsorship — built cross\-border brand visibility within mainstream sports culture

DVP Marketing at Angel One, Feb 2018 \- Sep 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos, Mumbai Area, India, → Scaled online contribution from 10% to 60% of total new accounts; grew new account opens from 2,000 to 40,000 per month — 20× growth over tenure → Contributed strategic research and competitive analysis that informed the company's shift toward discount brokerage positioning — foundational to the platform's evolution into Angel One → Transformed the mobile app into the highest\-ROI acquisition channel — 50% of new users at one\-third the paid CAC → Built in\-house influencer and creator engine contributing 20% of new accounts at lower CAC than paid channels → Dominated SEO across transactional keywords — 20% of new accounts via organic search at near\-zero incremental CAC

## Education

PGCBM, Business Administration and Management, General, XLRI Jamshedpur

Bachelor of Commerce \- BCom, commerce, ISDC

## Profile highlights

What's hard for others but easy for me…: Reading a P&L and calling which marketing spend buys growth vs rents it\. Most stop at ROAS\. I tie the dollar to contribution margin and payback\.

My hot take about working with AI is…: It won't replace marketers, it exposes those who never understood the economics\. AI spins up 1,000 creatives\. It can't tell you if a channel pays back\.

The role I'd take a 20% pay cut for: One where marketing owns a revenue number, not a lead count, and the founder wants to be argued with on unit economics\. Real mandate over cash\.

The hardest problem I've personally solved\.\.\.: Rebuilt a loss\-making acquisition mix around payback and contribution margin until it made money per customer\. Slower topline one quarter, healthier after\.

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