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Naveen Kumar

Building the infrastructure powering the next generation of celebrity brands | Founder @ Nivas - House of Celebrities

Bengaluru

8+ years of work experience

Nivas - House of Celebrities
Jun 20242 yrs 3 mosPresent

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Building India's dedicated ecosystem for celebrity-led consumer brands. • Combining manufacturing expertise, technology and distribution into one platform. • Working with celebrity brands from concept through launch and growth.
Home
Feb 20231 yr 6 mosJul 2024

On-site

Life promoted me to my most rewarding role yet— 'Dad' Turns out, building a tiny human is far more challenging than building products. Key accomplishments: • Mastered the art of researching, comparing, and selecting the safest baby products (with an unhealthy obsession over ingredient labels). • Achieved black-belt proficiency in diaper management under extreme time pressure. • Delivered countless live lullaby performances to an audience of one. • Worked as Chief Entertainment Officer, part-time clown, and full-time family photographer. • Developed an advanced ability to diagnose every sniffle using nothing but Google and parental overthinking.
OYO
Feb 20221 yrJan 2023

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Built products that made staying at OYO as seamless as booking one. • Led the post-booking consumer experience for millions of OYO users. • Turned customer pain points into products, launching features like Booking Extensions and Last-Mile Hotel Discovery. • Used data, user behaviour, and rapid experimentation to redesign the OYO website and mobile web experience. • Balanced customer delight with business impact by improving engagement, conversions, and revenue opportunities. Obsessed over one question every day: "How do we remove one more friction point from the customer's journey?"
Stealth Startup
Sep 20201 yr 5 mosJan 2022

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

My first lesson in product building: great products aren't built in isolation; they're built at the intersection of users, business, and execution. • Co-built a digital health platform designed to simplify health record management for patients and healthcare providers. • Led initiatives across product, strategy, enterprise sales, fundraising, and operations to take ideas from whiteboards to reality. • Defined success metrics, validated customer problems, and continuously translated market feedback into product improvements. • Learned how to build products while simultaneously building the business around them. Startup life taught me one thing: if nobody owns a problem, congratulations, you do.
Traform, Inc.
May 20182 yrs 5 mosSep 2020

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Building products is only half the job. Getting people to love them is the other half. • Led the product strategy for an AI-powered Travel & FinTech platform, taking ideas from whiteboard sketches to enterprise deployments. • Built one of the industry's first conversational corporate travel booking and expense management platforms. • Turned customer conversations into product roadmaps, ensuring every release solved a real business problem, not just added another feature. • Built strategic partnerships with BCD, Thomas Cook, Yatra, Cleartrip and FCM to accelerate enterprise adoption. • Owned the product end-to-end from strategy and execution to customer success, implementation and scale. • Helped build cross-functional teams from 6 to 50. I didn't just manage this product; I chased it through every stage of its life.

Naveen’s AI Stack

claude code
claude code
codex
codex
openai
openai

Education

Christ University, Bangalore

Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General

Christ University, Bangalore

20103 yrs2013
Christ University, Bangalore

Pre university College (11th & 12th), Marketing/Marketing Management, General

Christ University, Bangalore

20082 yrs2010

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Headline

Building the infrastructure powering the next generation of celebrity brands | Founder @ Nivas - House of Celebrities

About

"STRIVE NOT TO BE A SUCCESS, BUT RATHER TO BE OF VALUE" - ALBERT EINSTEIN Most people see Nivas as a marketplace. We don't. We're building the infrastructure behind celebrity commerce. Launching a successful celebrity brand takes far more than influence—it requires product development, manufacturing, technology, operations, and distribution. That's where we come in. Backed by over 30 years of manufacturing expertise, we're combining deep supply chain capabilities with technology to help celebrities and creators build enduring consumer brands. Always happy to connect with founders, creators, operators, and investors shaping the future of creator-led commerce.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

codex

openai

Work experience

Chief Executive Officer at Nivas - House of Celebrities, Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, • Building India's dedicated ecosystem for celebrity-led consumer brands. • Combining manufacturing expertise, technology and distribution into one platform. • Working with celebrity brands from concept through launch and growth.

Chief Happiness Officer (Home Inc.) at Home, Feb 2023 - Jul 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos, On-site, Life promoted me to my most rewarding role yet— 'Dad' Turns out, building a tiny human is far more challenging than building products. Key accomplishments: • Mastered the art of researching, comparing, and selecting the safest baby products (with an unhealthy obsession over ingredient labels). • Achieved black-belt proficiency in diaper management under extreme time pressure. • Delivered countless live lullaby performances to an audience of one. • Worked as Chief Entertainment Officer, part-time clown, and full-time family photographer. • Developed an advanced ability to diagnose every sniffle using nothing but Google and parental overthinking.

Global Product - Consumer at OYO, Feb 2022 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Built products that made staying at OYO as seamless as booking one. • Led the post-booking consumer experience for millions of OYO users. • Turned customer pain points into products, launching features like Booking Extensions and Last-Mile Hotel Discovery. • Used data, user behaviour, and rapid experimentation to redesign the OYO website and mobile web experience. • Balanced customer delight with business impact by improving engagement, conversions, and revenue opportunities. Obsessed over one question every day: "How do we remove one more friction point from the customer's journey?"

Head of Product at Stealth Startup, Sep 2020 - Jan 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, My first lesson in product building: great products aren't built in isolation; they're built at the intersection of users, business, and execution. • Co-built a digital health platform designed to simplify health record management for patients and healthcare providers. • Led initiatives across product, strategy, enterprise sales, fundraising, and operations to take ideas from whiteboards to reality. • Defined success metrics, validated customer problems, and continuously translated market feedback into product improvements. • Learned how to build products while simultaneously building the business around them. Startup life taught me one thing: if nobody owns a problem, congratulations, you do.

Head Of Product Management at Traform, Inc., May 2018 - Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Building products is only half the job. Getting people to love them is the other half. • Led the product strategy for an AI-powered Travel & FinTech platform, taking ideas from whiteboard sketches to enterprise deployments. • Built one of the industry's first conversational corporate travel booking and expense management platforms. • Turned customer conversations into product roadmaps, ensuring every release solved a real business problem, not just added another feature. • Built strategic partnerships with BCD, Thomas Cook, Yatra, Cleartrip and FCM to accelerate enterprise adoption. • Owned the product end-to-end from strategy and execution to customer success, implementation and scale. • Helped build cross-functional teams from 6 to 50. I didn't just manage this product; I chased it through every stage of its life.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Christ University, Bangalore

Pre university College (11th & 12th), Marketing/Marketing Management, General, Christ University, Bangalore