Karthik Narayanan

Karthik Narayanan is the Senior Director of Product Management at Chargebee, a subscription billing and revenue operations platform, and is currently based in India. Prior to this executive role, he co-founded and successfully exited two technology startups, including the fintech platform inai, which merged with Chargebee, and Auro, which was acquired by a Spanish fitness company. Before transitioning to entrepreneurship, Narayanan spent more than 10 years working as a software engineer developing core technology for major telecommunications and hardware corporations. His engineering career included technical roles at tier-one industry leaders such as Samsung, Juniper Networks, and Qualcomm. He holds multiple undergraduate degrees and previously pursued doctoral studies as a graduate student at the University of Washington. His professional background centers on scaling SaaS infrastructure, fintech payment systems, and product management within the global subscription economy.