Experienced Leader with strong business and techincal skills. I have built and operated large scale distributed systems which helped operate multi billion dollar business. Having experience in Software Developement, Testing and Operations, I build well rounded teams to deliver game changing products. I have good experience in presenting and communicating with the senior management team. I have started new businesses for Amazon.com and operated and fixed existing businesses. I manage multiple teams which have a global impact both on the technology and the business side. I have excellent knowledge of Retail, Web Services, Order Processing, Payments and Large Scale distributed systems. Specialties: Internet , Large Scale Distributed Systems , Payments and Risk Management,Online Marketing, Marketing email, Affiliates,SEO,SEOM, Web services, Transaction Processing, Retail and e Commerce.

Senior Vice President and Global CMO @ Chief Marketing Officer for the global leader in local commerce, making it easy for people around the world to search and discover great local businesses at unbeatable prices. Teams span 5 continents and 48 countries, Groupon's "Push and Pull " businesses, and include both the analytical and soft sciences of marketing, customer insights and brand, to CRM, computational marketing , data science, marketing analytics, social media advertising, Mobile advertising, advertising technology development and more. The Groupon Global Marketing team is hiring! We have roles in Software Development, Product Marketing, Mobile Marketing/Advertising. Positions are available in NA, EMEA, APAC and LATAM, from entry-level to executive-level. From October 2014 to Present (1 year 1 month) Greater Seattle AreaVP of Engineering and Global Online Marketing @ Currently Hiring Talented Engineers,Managers and Directors to build a world class team in Seattle and Palo Alto, Dublin From February 2012 to Present (3 years 9 months) SeattleDirector, General Manager Worldwide Marketing at Amazon.com @ I run the business and technology that powers free channels that include Automated targeted emails and Amazon deals which includes Amazon Goldbox and Lightening deals and Social Networking Channels I am also responsible for Amazon Holiday Strategy and all cross site events like Father's day, Mother's day , Valentine's Day ... I also manage Amazon's traffic systems group that enables driving traffic to Amazon from both paid and free channels. The paid channels include technologies to power the Associates business, Paid search, Offsite display advertising and Product Advertising API. In addition my group owns the core platform to track traffic, optimize and target traffic,Ad serving systems and systems to attribute traffic and the payments sytems for Associates. From March 2006 to February 2012 (6 years) Manager Global Payments Services @ I built and managed a business and technology team that allowed customers to make purchases using their bank account as a payment method.This team also built and operated systems that enable third party sellers on Amazon.com to get the money they make by selling on the Amazon.com marketplace. Managed a multi million euro direct debit business for Amazon DE From 2000 to March 2006 (6 years) Senior Member Technical Staff @ From 1998 to 2000 (2 years) Software Engineer @ From 1997 to 1998 (1 year) Engineer @ From 1995 to 1997 (2 years)

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering @ National Institute of Technology Karnataka Vinayak Hegde is skilled in: Distributed Systems, Go-to-market Strategy, Web Services, Online Advertising, SEO, Software Development, Analytics, Social Media Marketing, E-commerce, Product Management, Perl, Strategy, Marketing, Linux, Leadership, Online Marketing