University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Co-Founder & CEO @ Momos [Hiring!]

San Francisco Bay Area

Running a restaurant in today’s world can be difficult. Momos helps restaurants maximize revenue and growth through its marketing, reviews and analytics platform. Momos is dedicated to helping restaurants scale and build their businesses, and is pushing forward the shift towards the eCommerce-ization of the Food and Beverage industry.

Momos has raised USD 6.5m in seed funding co-led by Sequoia Capital India and Alpha Wave Incubation (AWI), which is managed by Falcon Edge Capital.

Momos currently works with some of the biggest restaurants in APAC & globally including Shake Shack, Dominos, Salad Stop, Lo & Behold and many more.

Momos

Co-Founder & CEO

GrabKitchen is the largest cloud kitchen platform in SE Asia. Founded, scaled and helped run the business for cloud kitchens across SE Asia for Grab. Responsible for hiring the core team that built and now manages the first 55+ cloud kitchens to service 500+ merchants across 5 countries (Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Singapore) and 12 cities.

Worked with key partners in Indonesia to launch and expand digitally first food brands. We co-created and scaled over 10 food brands. Managed and optimized the end to end P&L, operational excellence, demand growth and quality control for these food brands across ID.

Responsible for incubating and scaling the cloud retail & online grocery business across ID. This involves building and using distributed micro warehouses to deliver daily essentials including groceries to customers within 30 minutes using the Grab Mart platform.

Grab

Co-Founder, Head of GrabKitchen & Cloud Retail

Director, Head of Strategic Operations - GrabFood

Helped manage the Indonesia GrabFood P&L, designed the strategy to grow and gain category position quickly and managed the central operations team in Jakarta to drive higher user satisfaction through faster, more reliable delivery from a higher selection of top merchants. During my tenure, the food delivery business grew 20x in Indonesia.

Director, Head of Strategy & Planning - Indonesia GrabFood

Responsible for streamlining and optimizing restaurant operational processes across North Asia, Southeast Asia, ANZ & India for tens of thousands of restaurant partners. Oversaw work streams that include restaurant growth, quality, performance, profitability, marketplace efficiency and experience

Uber

Head of Restaurant Operations - APAC Regional Ops @ Uber Eats

- Served as the chief of staff to the Uber India CEO and helped scale the business by 10x in ~2 years.
-  Helped hire and train the core central ops, strategy and analytics team for Uber India.

Chief of Staff - Uber India President

Responsible for building and managing a team that provided key strategic and analytical insights to the Uber India Leadership team and city operation teams.

Some of the main focus areas involved reducing driver & rider fraud, improving marketplace efficiency, optimizing the new driver funnel & marketing spend, uber pool & airport strategy and increasing driver retention.

Head - India Analytics & Strategy

- Top 5% of starting class to get promoted to senior associate in 2 years

-  Senior data modeler, business analyst and project manager; Led a work stream that involves working with 2 upstream and 6 downstream client app teams and facilitating work amongst the internal design, java dev and testing teams

Sai Alluri

Sai Alluri