Ambareesh Murty

FOUNDER OF PEPPERFRY.COM

Ambareesh Murthy wasted no time in making good of his rich and successful eCommerce experience at eBay and, with no really large online players in India presenting great scope for eCommerce in India, which was only going to grow with time.

He made good and how: today PepperFry.com services to customers from 2700 cities across India and abroad (yes!), covering a whopping 80000 furniture and home items!!

Professional Stints

After working for some years with world’s leading apparel brand, Levi’s, the entrepreneur in Ambareesh Murthy started to express himself. So, in the year 2003 or thereabouts, he started a financial advisory firm called “Origin Resources.” The firm did consulting assignments and offered financial training, and was run for about 2-3 years.

Then came the break at the leading online retail giant, eBay. He served eBay for about 3 years in various senior executives positions – which presented him with a great opportunity to get well acquainted with the nitty-gritty’s of retail eCommerce.

Then, around 2008 – 09, Ambareesh Murthy got the really big break where he could test all of his retail, FMCG and eCommerce knowledge and experience to the fullest. He was elevated to the post of County Manager (a la CEO) of eBay India, entrusted with overseeing the India operations as well as expanding eBay’s presence in what has now turned out to be one of the world’s leading emerging economies with a very good chunk of its population possessing a great deal of disposable income.

Awards

Under Ambareesh Murthy visionary leadership, PepperFry.com presence in the eCommerce space has been vastly recognized besides being also awarded.

'It was the recipient of the '2012 Red Herring Asia Top 100' award, which honours the most promising private technology ventures from Asia

It won the 'Pure-Play eRetailer of the Year' at the Indian eRetail Congress 2014 that recognises outstanding performance and innovation in retail