Ravi Chawla

Ravi brings a unique & successful breadth of Leadership skills in Global Consulting in Strategy & Research Business Unit Management, Business Development, and Marketing Planning for international Research & FMCG companies. With a track record of success in all his assignments, including Nielsen for 15 years and prior Marketing roles, Ravi’s recent experience has been in driving analytics consulting projects at C- levels and providing leadership in Business Development in Marketing Analytics sector, helping to improve Product/ Media Marketing in FMCG & Retail Organisations through richer data Insights and applications.

The transition from Marketing to Research began In Nielsen, combining a 15 years career in research account management, analytics consulting. Ravi’s responsibilities grew from International Client Director to Senior Vice President & Managing Director. Projects Ravi led personally included, Market & Media Analysis, Product/Assortment Analysis, Pricing, Brand Equity, , Customer Marketing, Channel development, Customer Satisfaction Index, Market Modelling, Product Testing, Loyalty, CRM, & Mergers &Acquisition Integration & Change Management.

Engaging and personable, an effective communicator, with the ability to lead multi-disciplined business units, including periods living in Europe, Asia, & USA, the teams under Ravi’s leadership consistently raised share holder value and uniquely within Nielsen were awarded the hairman’s award twice.

Before Nielsen, Ravi enjoyed a Sales & Marketing career in St.Ivel & RHM, managing & re-juvinating, the largest brands where he worked with large budgets and agencies such as CDP, JWT, O&M & Brann Direct.

Ravi adds to his broad International business development & commercial marketing & consulting experience, with postgraduate qualifications and visit

professorships in science and management disciplines, as well as short service in the RAF as a pilot.

EDUCATION

• Currently MSc Bio-Informatics – University Of Oxford
• Leadership Programme – Ashridge Business School
• PGDip (Information Systems) – University of West London
• MBA (Finance & Marketing) – International Management Centre Buckingham
• DMS Marketing – University of Brighton
• MSc. (Merit) Chemical Spectroscopy – Sir John Cass Institute of Science
• BSc. (Hons) Biochemistry – University Of Salford
• Fellow – Chartered Management Institute