Ragy Thomas joins Sprinklr India
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siliconindia | Tuesday, 01 September 2009, 19:23 IST
Bangalore: Ragy Thomas, a global email marketing veteran has taken an equity position and joined the board of directors as the Chairman of Sprinklr India. Sprinklr is a digital marketing services company that offers to bring world class e-mail marketing offering to India.
Ragy Thomas said, "Email has proven to have the maximum Return on Investment (ROI) of any marketing channel globally. Add to that, the fact that the growing internet user base in India is projected to be third largest in the world by 2013 and you have a no-brainer opportunity to get in on the ground floor. I have been tremendously impressed with the depth of experience and passion of the team at Sprinklr India and look forward to building a market leader here within the next 2 to 3 years."
Ragy is the former President of Epsilon Interactive, one of the largest email marketing services providers in the world. He has been at the forefront of the evolving email marketing industry in the U.S. since 2000 and was the CTO of Bigfoot Interactive when it was sold to Epsilon in 2005 for over $120 million. He is now focused on the social media marketing opportunity in the U.S. with his latest start up while leveraging his global digital marketing experience with strategic investments in emerging markets.
Manjunatha K G, Managing Director, Sprinklr India said, "We are incredibly pleased with the enthusiasm we see in the Indian market. Just in the last few months we have signed over 30 large accounts and our delivery volumes have been increasing 200-300 percent month over month. Aside from the robust deliverability and reporting features our clients are also assured by the platform's SAS70 compliant security infrastructure and redundancy. Typically a new client sees about 20-40 percent increase in deliverability and 200-1000 percent increase in throughput when they migrate to the Sprinklr India platform from an in-house infrastructure or a local competitor. Ragy coming on board as an investor foretells exciting times ahead for not just Sprinklr India but for the entire email marketing space in India."