In his new role, Mallavarapu will oversee brand, marketing, digital, social media, public relations, growth, market research and customer experience.
He will also work closely with Carsome chief brand officer Derek Tan on brand, creative, production and sponsorships.
Carsome co-founder and Group CEO Eric Cheng said that the would continue strengthening Carsome’s leadership team to achieve greater heights.
“Ravi is a data-driven marketer who balances creativity with excellent execution. We are very excited to have him onboard to accelerate our business growth and help establish Carsome’s mission in the market, which is to create a new standard of buying and selling cars,” Cheng added.
Mallavarapu.
Mallavarapu brings with him close to 15 years of experience in digital, brand and growth marketing.
He spent six years across multiple firms in India, before moving to Malaysia, where his last role was AirAsia’s chief growth officer.
At AirAsia, Mallavarapu successfully built an in-house digital marketing team and transformed it into a growth team, which runs ads to develop marketing products, in line with the company’s business direction of pivoting from an airline to a super-app.
“I am thrilled to be a part of Carsome’s journey of building a trusted car ownership ecosystem using data and technology. Being the industry leader, Carsome is in a good position to bring change to user behaviour in the Southeast Asian region, where most car transactions are done offline,” he said.
