Ashwin Kolappan

Product, Strategy, GTM.

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Sodexoex-Kaddy Analyticsex-Nebulae

Entrepreneur and Product Leader, with 10+ years of adventures across B2B Commerce, SaaS, Marketplaces, EdTech, Supply Chain Tech, Coworking / Real Estate Tech, and Fintech.

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As an entrepreneur, I spot and grab opportunities to create value, and build leverage for the business that sustains value creation. As a designer, I am drawn to understand and solve for the needs of people and businesses. Every new creation put out in the world, is an opportunity to express a point of view, by creating value, ease, meaning, delight, and outcomes. As a generalist and a product leader, I understand deeply the nuances and dependencies between the work of engineers, designers, data scientists, marketers, sales people, other operations, and strategic partners. I inspire, align, and unify these experts towards achieving business outcomes and customer value.

Career TimelineNOW → PAST

GTM Index

  1. SODEXOJOB
    1. Digital AI and Innovation…
      9M
  2. COGOPORTJOB
    1. New Venture Development
      11M
    2. Product Leader
      3Y 4M
    3. Product Mgr
      1Y 7M
  3. COWRKSJOB
    1. Product Mgr
      7M
  4. SPOTLIGHT & COMPANYJOB
    1. Product & GTM
      4M
  5. NEBULAEJOB
    1. Chief Product Officer
      1Y 10M
  6. KADDY ANALYTICSJOB
    1. Co-Founder
      1Y 9M
  7. IMPETUSJOB
    1. Associate Eng
      5M

Time in market 13Y 1MOpen 1Closed 8Stints 9

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  1. Job: Kaddy Analytics — Co-Founder · 2014-05 – 2016-02
  2. Job: Nebulae — Chief Product Officer · 2016-04 – 2018-02
  3. Job: Cogoport — Product Leader · 2021-04 – 2024-08
  4. Job: Cogoport — New Venture Development · 2024-09 – 2025-08
  5. Job: Spotlight & Company — Product & Go-to-Market · 2018-06 – 2018-10
  6. Job: CoWrks — Product Manager · 2018-11 – 2019-06
  7. Job: Cogoport — Product Manager · 2019-08 – 2021-03
  8. Job: Sodexo — Digital AI and Innovation Leader - APAC · 2025-11 – present
  9. Job: Impetus — Associate Engineer · 2013-07 – 2013-12

Skills

Product StrategyProduct ManagementProduct LeadershipFirst Principles ThinkingPresentationsProduct VisionProduct ThinkingProduct SenseAttention to DetailProduct RequirementsEnterprise ArchitectureProduct DesignUser Experience DesignEntrepreneurshipCommunicationLeadershipTeam LeadershipCross-functional Team LeadershipProblem SolvingUser Experience (UX)

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