Ravi Kumaraswami

President of Worldwide Field Operations Riskified

Last Reviewed: September 18, 2026

Executive Summary

Ravi Kumaraswami is President of Worldwide Field Operations at Riskified, the e-commerce fraud-prevention company, where he has run global sales, marketing and strategic partnerships since May 2022. The role was created for him as part of a deliberate widening of the company’s commercial leadership after its 2021 New York listing. His career is a specific kind of revenue leadership: he has repeatedly been the person brought in to convert a technically strong software business into a financially disciplined one, having doubled revenue and reached positive EBITDA as chief executive of Crownpeak, more than doubled recurring revenue and reached breakeven at Lithium Technologies, and grown SAP Ariba’s global sales business from $450 million to $700 million. What drew him to Riskified, on his own account, was its customer retention - a figure around 99 per cent, which in enterprise software is the only metric that makes the rest of the model work.

Career Highlights

• President of Worldwide Field Operations at Riskified since May 2022, the company’s first holder of the role, covering global sales, marketing and strategic partnerships.
• Confirmed in post as a Section 16 officer of Riskified as recently as September 2026 through his own SEC filings.
• Chief Executive Officer of Crownpeak Technologies, where he doubled revenue - partly through acquisition - and delivered positive EBITDA.
• Chief Revenue Officer of Lithium Technologies, later renamed Khoros, where he more than doubled annual recurring revenue and brought the business to breakeven EBITDA.
• Senior Vice President of Global Sales at SAP Ariba, growing the business from $450 million to $700 million in revenue.
• Earlier career roles at Accenture.

Professional Journey

Kumaraswami’s grounding is in enterprise software sales at the largest scale. At SAP Ariba - the procurement network SAP acquired in 2012 - he was Senior Vice President of Global Sales, and took the business from $450 million to $700 million of revenue. That is a volume of growth achievable only by managing a large distributed sales organization as a system rather than by personal selling, and it set the pattern for what followed.

He moved next into growth-stage companies where the problem was not scale but discipline. As Chief Revenue Officer of Lithium Technologies, the online community and social-engagement software business later renamed Khoros, he more than doubled annual recurring revenue while taking the company to breakeven EBITDA - the combination that private investors in that era had stopped treating as optional. He then took the chief executive’s seat at Crownpeak Technologies, a digital experience platform, where he again doubled revenue and reached positive EBITDA, partly by acquisition.

Riskified recruited him in May 2022. The company, an Israeli-founded, New York-listed business, uses machine learning to decide in real time whether an e-commerce transaction is fraudulent and takes on the chargeback liability for the ones it approves - a model that sells on economics rather than on security, since the customer’s interest is in approving more good orders rather than in blocking more bad ones. At the time of his appointment Riskified had reviewed $22.7 billion of gross merchandise volume in a single quarter and posted record quarterly revenue of $58.8 million.

His brief covers the whole commercial front line: sales, marketing and channel, worldwide. He remains in the role. His most recent SEC filing as an officer of the company, reporting a routine sale under a pre-arranged trading plan, is dated 15 September 2026 and carries the title Pres. Worldwide Field Ops.

Education

No education could be established for Ravi Kumaraswami. Neither Riskified’s own announcement of his appointment nor the independent trade coverage of it names a degree or institution, and no other admissible source was found.