Rahul Bhatia

VP, Operations at Elastic Run

Rahul Bhatia is an accomplished operations executive with extensive experience in logistics, supply chain management, and project execution. Currently serving as Vice President Operations and previously as Director Operations at ElasticRun since August 2016, Rahul has demonstrated leadership in optimizing operational efficiency. Prior experience includes significant roles within the Indian Navy from May 2002 to May 2016, where Rahul led a team of over 105 personnel as Head of Supply Chain Management, achieving a 27% productivity improvement, and served as Project Director overseeing civil and technical projects with a substantial budget. Rahul's engineering expertise was further exemplified as Chief Engineer Officer aboard a frontline warship and as a Technical Advisor for flotilla operations. Academic credentials include a Master of Financial Management from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute and a Bachelor of Technology from the Naval College of Engineering.

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Mumbai, India

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Elastic Run

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ElasticRun is a B2B eCommerce platform for rural India Opening up newer possibilities for brands to make their products available to rural consumers. ElasticRun extends the reach of the brand's direct distribution networks to deep rural markets. It enables access to a set of net new stores and customers for the brands, which were not accessible through the traditional distribution networks. ElasticRun network helps eCommerce companies reach the customers in far flung rural areas through its crowdsourced logistics network. The rich transaction data generated on ElasticRun platform enables financial institutions to bring in a large number of rural stores as their SME customers. The same set of data further helps the brands to sharpen their marketing offerings to the rural markets. The deep reach is made possible through the ElasticRun technology platform that enables a “no capex” and “variable cost” crowdsourced logistics network. Through its rural Kirana network, ElasticRun platform would channel trade, finance and data of $600 Bn consumption in India. ElasticRun was founded by Sandeep Deshmukh, Shitiz Bansal and Saurabh Nigam in 2016. It is backed by multiple marquee investors.


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Pune, India

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1,001-5,000

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