Roopesh Balakrishna has been named Vice President, Marketing at ekincare, a full stack health benefits platform, beginning April 2022. Roopesh will be in charge of creating integrated Marketing and Inside Sales teams to promote growth and strengthen ekincare’s brand in the market in this job.
Prior to joining ekincare, he was in charge of Akamai’s marketing mandates in major APJ markets. He’s spent more than 15 years in global GTM roles in marketing, advertising, public relations, sales, and advisory roles in a variety of sectors, delivering on strategic and functional leadership mandates to create top-line growth and operational efficiencies. Throughout his career, he’s written thought-leadership papers and launched industry-first initiatives at companies including Akamai, Freshworks, HP, YourStory Media, and Ogilvy & Mather, to name a few.
Kiran Kalakuntla, CEO & Co-founder, said “Over the past few years we focused on the product and market fit, which is now validated with 450+ paying customers and 1.5M+ employees’ engaging on the platform. In the next phase of our growth, we are going to double down on Marketing and Sales. We’re super excited to onboard Roopesh to lead Marketing in making ekincare the largest health benefits platform in India.”
Roopesh Balakrishna, VP, Marketing said, “ekincare is the best-kept secret in India’s healthtech sector. The depth of its patented platform offers tremendous opportunities to continue delivering exceptional experiences to customers with limitless potential. I’m thrilled to partner and build the next hyper-growth phase with the stellar ekincare team and strengthen its leadership position in the industry.”
