Leo James Pellissery

Who they are

Leo James Pellissery is Senior Product Director, Customer & Growth at Glovo — a career that ran from Directi and Flipkart in India to eDreams ODIGEO in Spain before landing in Barcelona's on-demand delivery scene.

Person

Leo cut his teeth in India's early internet and e-commerce wave — stints at Directi, DesignWiz, and Xebec Communications before Flipkart, where India's largest e-commerce platform was in full hypergrowth. That Flipkart chapter is the tell: he was inside the machine that defined product and growth thinking for an entire generation of South Asian tech operators. From there he moved to Barcelona and eDreams ODIGEO, one of Europe's largest online travel agencies, before joining Glovo as a senior product leader. He completed coursework at Harvard Business School Online, a credential that fits the profile of a practitioner sharpening commercial frameworks mid-career rather than a fresh graduate. He writes occasionally on LinkedIn — his posts cluster around product management, growth, on-demand delivery, and hiring, with specific callouts on grocery delivery and SEO. Possibly — the mixed tenure pattern across his career suggests he moves when the problem set changes, not when the comp package improves.

Company

The most immediate development at Glovo is a COO transition: Aditya Rajkumar joins as Chief Operating Officer on August 3, 2026, succeeding Piyush Raghuvanshi who has left the company. That change lands inside a company under significant regulatory pressure — the European Commission fined Glovo €105.7 million in June 2025 as part of a broader €329 million penalty on Delivery Hero and Glovo for illegal no-poach and market-allocation cartel agreements. On the product side, Glovo rolled out new personalization features — 'Discovery Wall', 'Fast Track', and customer review functions — across 22 countries in 2025, and launched Flash Deals, time-limited discounts now live across 23 countries and 1,800+ cities. Delivery Hero has consolidated ownership to roughly 94%, pushing Glovo toward margin discipline and capex tightening rather than the fundraising mode of its 2021 Series F. In January 2026, Glovo expanded its BIEK service and the Biedronka partnership to 12 locations, and the company has announced plans to invest KES 10 billion in Kenya by 2030 as it bets that African markets will leapfrog traditional e-commerce.

Market

Glovo competes in a crowded on-demand multi-category delivery market alongside Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Just Eat, Wolt, DoorDash, Rappi, and PedidosYa, while its parent Delivery Hero is simultaneously a shareholder and a named co-defendant in the EU cartel case. Glovo holds the #1 position in several emerging markets — Romania, Georgia, Morocco, and Kenya — and is a top-10 food delivery platform in Europe, with particular strength in Southern and Eastern Europe across 23 countries and 1,800+ cities. The broader sector is pushing hard beyond food into groceries, pharmacy, and retail, with antitrust scrutiny and courier employment laws (notably Spain's Riders' Law) adding structural cost and compliance weight across all players.

Network

Oscar Pierre· Founder & CEO, Glovo
Diego Nouet· VP International, Glovo
Aditya Rajkumar· Incoming COO, Glovo (from August 3, 2026)

How they likely show up

Career path from Directi → Flipkart → eDreams → Glovo spans India, then Europe, each move stepping up market complexity → suggests comfort operating across cultural and regulatory contexts without a home-base playbook.
Flipkart background during its hypergrowth era → likely calibrated to high-velocity, data-heavy product cultures where growth metrics are non-negotiable.
Operator role type with content themes clustering on conversion, SEO, and hiring → probably runs a tight loop between product decisions and measurable commercial outcomes, not abstract strategy.
Occasional LinkedIn posts specifically about Glovo acquisitions and hiring → comfortable being visible on behalf of the company, not just internally.
Possibly — mixed tenure shape across career suggests he moves on when the scope of the problem no longer stretches him, rather than staying for institutional comfort.

Conversation tips

→ Reference the Flipkart era specifically — it's a formative chapter for product operators of his generation and he'll have strong opinions about how that experience translates (or doesn't) to European markets.
→ Ask about the tension between Glovo's personalization push (Discovery Wall, Flash Deals) and the margin discipline Delivery Hero is now imposing — that's the live strategic tension in his work.
→ He posts on LinkedIn about hiring for product roles; if you have context on PM hiring or growth team structure, bring it — it signals you've actually looked at his feed.
→ Don't open with eDreams or travel tech as his primary frame — Glovo is where his identity sits now, and that's where the interesting problems are.

Toolbox

Openers

Open on Glovo's 2025 app redesign — 'Discovery Wall' and 'Fast Track' rolled out across 22 countries, which is exactly the customer and growth surface he owns. Ask what drove the prioritization.
Reference the Lola Market and Pauza absorptions: Glovo converted two competitor footprints into market share in Spain and Croatia. For a Senior Product Director on growth, that's a sudden influx of new customers with unfamiliar habits — a real product challenge.
Bring up the Kenya investment — Glovo has committed KES 10 billion by 2030 on a thesis that Africa skips traditional e-commerce. It's a bold, specific strategic bet and it signals where the growth ambition is pointing beyond Europe.

Discovery questions

When Glovo absorbed Lola Market's customer base in Spain, what does the conversion and retention curve look like for users who came in through a competitor — do they behave differently?
Flash Deals rolled out across 23 countries and 1,800+ cities — how do you balance a promotion mechanic that's good for customers against the margin discipline Delivery Hero is now pushing down?
You've worked product at Flipkart and now Glovo — both multi-category platforms at scale, but very different regulatory and competitive environments. What's the biggest thing that doesn't transfer?

Avoid

Don't conflate Glovo's growth story with a simple food-delivery narrative — Leo's remit explicitly covers non-food categories and retail partnerships, and framing Glovo as just a restaurant app undersells the strategic context he's working in.

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