Gaurav Bhasin

Gaurav Bhasin is Former Group CSO & Malaysia CEO, Carousell Group.

Gaurav Bhasin is a growth operator and venture builder with strong technology fluency and nearly three decades of experience, including 15+ years scaling multi-sided digital marketplaces and technology platforms across Southeast Asia. He builds enduring value by aligning behaviour, economics and technology, and has held senior country, regional and group leadership roles at Carousell Group / 701Search.

Over a decade, Gaurav led successive reinventions of one of Malaysia’s largest digital marketplaces, transforming stalled growth into sustained profitability through shifts in product, monetisation, technology and operating model. Mudah became Carousell Group’s largest profit engine, delivering 36% EBITDA CAGR from 2016 to 2024. At group level, he partnered with Carousell’s founder on portfolio strategy and transformation, helping build recommerce and omni-channel capabilities into a new monetisation engine that now contributes approximately 25% of Group gross profit. He also supported a US$110 million capital raise and played a central role in multiple acquisitions and joint ventures.

Gaurav is especially useful to founders, boards and leadership teams navigating growth plateaus, monetisation redesign, business model shifts, expansion, M&A, AI adoption and operating-model change. He brings an operator’s lens to strategic trade-offs, governance cadence, capital allocation and execution risk, helping organisations cut through noise and translate ambition into scalable operating systems. He has steered AI and GenAI adoption to improve user experience, decision-making and internal workflows, modernised technology platforms, and linked recommerce strategy to measurable environmental impact through Southeast Asia’s first avoided-emissions measurement for second-hand commerce.