# Ravi Kabra

> Ravi Kabra is the co-founder and CEO of DeltaX, an advertising technology company he built with CTO Akshay Surve. His background spans quantitative market research, digital agency leadership at Havas and business leadership at Directi. DeltaX connects advertising insights, personalized creative production and measurement for agencies and brands operating across markets.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at DeltaX
- **Organizations:** DeltaX, Directi, Havas Media Group, Ecselis, Media Contacts, Pinstorm, IMRS, Mumbai Toastmasters, Career World / APEdu.com
- **Education:** Bachelor of Business Management (BBM), Bangalore University, Executive MBA (EMBA), S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research
- **Known for:** Co-founded DeltaX with Akshay Surve., Led Ecselis and a global center of excellence within Havas Media., DeltaX was selected for Blackbox Connect Winter 2015.

## Career timeline

- **1999** — Online-marketing experience dates to 1999, according to a contemporaneous 2010 industry report.
- **Early career** — Worked in quantitative market research; subsequent roles included Pinstorm and Media Contacts.
- **2007-2011** — Led Ecselis within Havas Media; built and ran a global center of excellence serving agencies and advertisers.
- **2010** — Appointed Director of New Business for South and Southeast Asia at Media Contacts while managing Ecselis.
- **Before DeltaX** — Served as GM and Business Head at Directi, with responsibilities spanning hosting expansion, online marketing and domain monetization.
- **2012** — DeltaX’s official company LinkedIn page gives 2012 as its founding year; Kabra co-founded it with Akshay Surve.
- **2012** — A January 6 career talk at Christ University covered customers, partnerships and accountability in performance media.
- **2015** — DeltaX selected for the winter Blackbox Connect program in Silicon Valley, sponsored by Google for Entrepreneurs.
- **2016** — Digilant announced a perpetual license to DeltaX’s dynamic creative optimization technology on January 27.
- **2021** — Shared DeltaX’s role in the Cannes bronze-winning Not Just a Cadbury Ad campaign.
- **2022** — DeltaX supported Tokopedia’s Ramadan personalized-video campaign, with more than 50,000 merchants participating.

## Achievements

- Co-founded DeltaX with Akshay Surve.
- Led Ecselis and a global center of excellence within Havas Media.
- DeltaX was selected for Blackbox Connect Winter 2015.
- DeltaX’s dynamic creative optimization technology was licensed by Digilant in 2016.
- DeltaX’s official website states that it serves more than 1,000 advertisers globally.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Verification update: DeltaX’s live company page continues to list Ravi Kabra as co-founder and CEO and Akshay Surve as co-founder and CTO. This is the research check date, not an announcement date.

## Links

- Website: http://ravi.kabra.in
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravikabra
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/kabraravi
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/ravi.kabra

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Last updated: 2026-10-23