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title: "Kartik Vuppuluri - Cluster CEO - Food Delivery, Bharat in Hyderabad | Tal"
description: "Meet Kartik Vuppuluri, Business Leader | General Management | P&L Ownership | Revenue Growth | Marketplace Operations | GTM & Monetisation | Customer Success | SaaS | E-commerce | Ex-Zomato, Meesho based in Hyderabad. AI stack includes claude, gemini, and kimi."
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# Kartik Vuppuluri on Tal

## Headline

Business Leader \| General Management \| P&L Ownership \| Revenue Growth \| Marketplace Operations \| GTM & Monetisation \| Customer Success \| SaaS \| E\-commerce \| Ex\-Zomato, Meesho

## About

I've never chased a particular job title\. I've simply followed interesting business problems\. That journey has taken me across sales, marketplace growth, operations, monetisation, customer success & general management, working with businesses at different stages of growth\. What I've enjoyed most isn't a particular function​ \- it's helping businesses scale\. Building teams\. Improving customer experiences\. Solving commercial challenges\. Creating systems that make growth sustainable\. I'm still learning, still curious and still excited by businesses that are trying to build something meaningful\.

## Location

Hyderabad

## AI stack

claude

gemini

kimi

openai

## Work experience

Cluster CEO \- Food Delivery, Bharat at Zomato, 2024 \- 2025 · 1 yr, Led the end\-to\-end business and P&L across 30 cities, driving commercial growth, operational excellence and marketplace expansion\.

Manager \- Monetisation & Strategy at Meesho, 2022 \- 2023 · 1 yr, \- Led advertising monetisation across a portfolio of 7,000\+ sellers, partnering across commercial teams to improve seller adoption and platform revenue\.

Regional Head \- Field Sales & Business Development at toothsi, 2021 \- 2022 · 1 yr, \- Owned regional operations, revenue growth and capacity planning across Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad, while leading Sales and Operations teams\.

Regional Manager \- Food Delivery, Emerging Markets at Zomato, 2021 \- 2021 · Less than a year, Hyderabad, \- Generated demand for 3\.5k\+ restaurants managed by a layered team of 18\+ members from sales executives to senior managers in Tier 2 \(& 3\) cities across Andhra Pradesh, Telangana & Madhya Pradesh\. \- Delivered incremental Order growth of 15% MoM across the region & scaled up Partner Supply from 2\.3k\+ outlets to 3\.5k\+ outlets across 3 months\. \- Re\-launched 10 cities ground up in 2 months across the region\.

Business Head \- Ad Sales Dining Out at Zomato, 2019 \- 2021 · 2 yrs, Chennai Area, India, \- Led an 18 member layered team from Sales Executives to Senior Managers \(including Area Sales Managers, Growth Managers, Ops & Deployment\) that generated a monthly turnover of INR 5 Million, including media sales, Zomato Gold/Pro & Contactless Dining\. \- Achieved 50% Incremental revenue growth for the media business for Q3 vs Q4\.

Business Strategy & Operations \- Zomato Gold at Zomato, 2018 \- 2019 · 1 yr, Delhi, NCR, Handled special projects related to offline Sales for Zomato Gold and reporting of key metrics of the overall business in collaboration with internal stakeholders\.

Asst\. Manager – Dealership & Services at Escorts Construction Equipment Ltd, 2013 \- 2015 · 2 yrs, Faridabad, Started my B2B commercial journey by working closely with dealers, channel partners and enterprise customers in the Construction Equipment business\. Managed dealer relationships, sales operations and commercial initiatives while developing a strong foundation in business development and channel management\.

## Education

Executive Program in Business Management, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Master of Business Administration \- MBA, Marketing & Finance, Indian Institute of Planning and Management

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