High Stakes Growth

Hari Ranganathan is the Chief Digital Officer at KilgourMD, a dermatologist-founded brand tackling hormonal hair loss in women. Previously, he held senior roles at celebrity-backed brands like Haus Labs and The Honest Company.


Expect to hear about:

– Engineer to Marketer: How a Dartmouth mechanical engineer fell in love with the world of ecommerce and analytics.

– Lean and Hybrid: Why 60+ person teams in Ecom circa 2012 are giving way to agile in-house leads plus agency support.

– Love the Game: Hari's take that since growth marketing changes so fast, you have to love the game to stay on the cutting edge.

– Leading the Team: His lesson that senior marketing leaders have to maiximize each team member's strengths instead of stretching star players too thin.

– A False Dichotomy: Why he stopped believing brand and performance marketing are separate.


Find Hari on:
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/harinarayanan-ranganathan-9387961b/ 

What is High Stakes Growth?

High Stakes Growth® takes you inside the boldest decisions behind today’s most exciting consumer brands. We bring you candid conversations with the founders and CMOs who built them—unpacking the high-stakes moments, tough calls, and game-changing strategies that made these brands what they are today. No fluff. No surface-level insights. Just real stories from the leaders who made it happen. Hosted by Forest Bronzan and Leah Lloyd, they bring a combined four decades of consumer brand expertise to these conversations.