THE PATH TO C-LEVEL EP 201

SUNIL GOPINATH | CEO, Rakuten India Enterprise Private Limited As the CEO of Rakuten India, the global product and innovation center of Rakuten Group, Inc., Sunil spearheads the scaling of product and technology footprint across a wide range of Rakuten's global businesses. Sunil is also responsible for driving the rapid adoption of data sciences and AI across Rakuten’s global products and ecosystem. He is also an advisor to many startups and a global leadership coach. Sunil has been nominated as a member of NASSCOM's prestigious GCC Council for 2021-23.He also leads Rakuten’s Enterprise SaaS Business in APAC. In 2022, Sunil Gopinath joined Twid’s board of directors. Sunil has an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MS from Virginia Tech.Before Rakuten, as Head of Flipkart's Marketplace Division, Sunil helped build & scale their Marketplace business to a $2B+ business with over 100,000 merchants.Sunil has held senior leadership roles globally in companies like Intel and Qualcomm driving innovation in mobile, wearable devices, and location-based services.