chiragpatnaik

Chirag Patnaik works at the intersection of marketing, communications, technology & politics. His experience over the last 2 decades has spanned media and technology. He has worked in the largest media and technology firms including The Times of India, India Today, Indiamart & Samsung among others. He also worked at the Indian National Congress where he was running the social media and technology operations in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. He also ran a startup focusing to enable, the corner mom & pop shop, which is now defunct.  He has experience in building and marketing diverse categories of products from newspapers, websites, B2B services and software products. His special interest is in data-led decision support systems. His interventions in Indiatimes for their web properties led to a 40% jump in available inventory and better targeting, pioneered the introduction of then-new technologies like Ajax.  An avid technology enthusiast, he created his first w