Founder Profile
Ambareesh Murty
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Ambareesh Murty?
Ambareesh Murty is a founder of Pepperfry, which was founded in 2011 with Ashish Shah.
- Company founded
- Pepperfry
- Founded
- 2011
- Co-founders
- Ashish Shah
Background
Engineer (Delhi College of Engineering) and IIM Calcutta MBA with marketing roles at Cadbury, ICICI Prudential and Levi Strauss, then country manager of eBay India.
Founding Story
Ambareesh Murty co-founded Pepperfry in 2011 and led it as CEO for 12 years, building its omnichannel studio network and raising more than $300 million. He died of a cardiac arrest in Leh in August 2023, aged 51.
Education: Delhi Technological University; Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.
Ambareesh Vedantam Murty died on August 7, 2023. Before Pepperfry he was eBay's country manager for India. Ambareesh Murty was born in 1971.