Aswin Kurella headshot. VP Product, Recurly and Co-founder Leaprev

Aswin Kurella

Vice President, Product, Recurly

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With a more than 25-year track record of success in leading software product development in the high-tech industry, Aswin has helped businesses achieve transformational results in productivity, profitability, and overall revenue growth. He has extensive experience growing early-stage startups and high-growth brands, evidenced by his ability to build best-in-class solutions. With the right platform developed under Aswin Kurella’s leadership, finance experts across various industries can meet compliance requirements while managing their mix of pricing thanks to enhanced revenue intelligence from Recurly.

Before joining the subscription and billing management company Recurly in 2022, Aswin held product-focused positions at Oracle Corporation, Juniper Networks, and SAP. He also cofounded LeapRev Inc., a comprehensive revenue management solution to automate ASC 606/IFRS 15. Since joining Recurly as the Vice President of Product, Aswin has brought unparalleled global revenue recognition and forecasting expertise to streamline and automate complex revenue reporting processes. Finance teams now can track revenue over time while managing price adjustments and staying within the revenue recognition reporting requirements. Because the platform handles the complexities of subscription management, Recurly customers can achieve critical capabilities in revenue management, one of the major must-haves for subscription businesses, thanks to Aswin’s powerful combination of background, vision, and experience.

Aswin earned his Bachelor’s of Engineering, Computer Science, at Bangalore University and his Master’s in Engineering Management from San Jose State University.

An all-in-one subscription billing platform, Recurly powers flexibility in pricing models, enables teams to build new customer experiences, accept international payments, implement the accounting automation of revenue recognition, and build predictability for businesses with revenue insights into consumer preferences within their own subscription services. Category-defining companies including Sling, Twitch, BarkBox, FabFitFun, Paramount, Lucid, and Sprout Social can achieve deeper capabilities thanks to the next-generation revenue management application Aswin Kurella and his talented team have developed. These successful subscription businesses manage billions of dollars in credit card payments for recurring revenue, future-proof their billing and payment operations, curb subscriber retention, and win back millions of dollars in revenue recovery across hundreds of thousands of subscription contracts. Founded in 2009, Recurly is based in San Francisco, with offices in Boulder, New Orleans, and London. For more information, visit https://recurly.com.

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