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Ajit Narayanan

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Chief Product & Technology Officer at Licious
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Ajit is a Chief Product & Technology Officer with over 25 years of experience scaling major tech businesses like Licious, mfine, and Myntra. An alumnus of Bangalore University, he specializes in AI-driven product strategy and building high-performance global teams. Colleagues often describe him as a rockstar CTO, a great mentor, and a rock-solid manager.

His passion for technology is lifelong, having started tinkering with it at the age of 12. He has a history of working with AI systems long before they became mainstream, consistently applying his expertise across e-commerce, healthcare, and enterprise software to drive innovation and business growth from the ground up.

Unique fact: While CTO at Myntra, Ajit conceived and launched Moda Rapido, the worlds first fashion brand designed entirely by Artificial Intelligence.

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Experience
26 Years
Current Role
Chief Product & Technology Officer
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Priorities

Topics Ajit cares about

AI Governance
He actively posts about the risks of powerful AI models without adequate guardrails, believing the next major failures in the field will be governance-related, not technological.
Scaling Tech Platforms
Has a proven track record of scaling systems, including handling 25x traffic spikes for billion-dollar sales events at Myntra and modernizing the entire tech stack at Licious.
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Career

Work history

10-2022 - 5-2025
Chief Product & Technology Officer
Licious
7-2017 - 10-2022
Chief Product & Technology Officer (CTO) & Founding Member
mfine
9-2016 - 7-2017
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) - Myntra
Myntra
4-2015 - 9-2016
Senior Vice President - Product & Engineering : Storefront
Myntra
2-2012 - 4-2015
Vice President - Product and Engineering ( HANA cloud Integration & SAP API Management )
SAP Labs India
In the press

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Ajit Narayanan – Chief Technology & Product Officer, Licious (Profile). Featured in Entrepreneur India
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Licious names Ajit Narayanan as Chief Product and Technology Officer. Featured in LiveMint
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Education
1994 - 1998
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)
Bangalore University
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Kendriya Vidyalaya
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