Prabhakar Jayakumar is the Country Manager of DigitalOcean, responsible for running the firm’s operations in India. Building localized go-to-market strategies to increase user base and driving revenue growth in India are among his primary areas of focus. He comes with over 9 years of experience across business development, marketing and technology consulting functions in Internet and Ecommerce domains.

Being only the second hire for Amazon’s International expansion team in India, Prabhakar played a key role in planning and launching Junglee.com and Amazon.in marketplace businesses in India. In his last stint as Head of Seller Marketing at Amazon, he led the team responsible for marketing their seller facing products & services to the small and medium businesses (SMBs) in India. Prior to joining DigitalOcean, Prabhakar co-founded a startup in the social networking & social commerce space for local neighborhoods.

He is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore and NITK Surathkal.