Kalyan Krishnamurthy

This is the man who rescued the sinking ship. In Flipkark's saga, he is the turnaround man Kalyan Krishnamurthy the Chief Executive Officer of Flipkart, who has now taken over Human Resource Department, of the company. Kalyan Krishnamurthy is considered as the doyan of the corporate world.

Kalyan Krishnamurthy, a two time MBA from University of Illinois and Asian Institution of Management, joined Procter and Gamble in the Supply Chain Finance section after which he had a successful stint st eBay for 6 years in various capacities. But it was in 2011 that Tiger Global Management, an investment firm based out of New York hired him and sent him to Flipkart at the position of head Category Design in 2016. And as fate would have it, he eventually became the CEO of Flipkart. All though, Krishnamurty has been involved with Flipkart's matters as prominent investor and an office holder. But this time, he is charge of much wider role. Apart from, Overseeing the finance function, he will now supervise the human resource department, while other prominent terms at Flipkart including category design management, as well as private labels, customer shopping and marketing will continue to report to him directly.

Flipkart is an electronic commerce company headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. It was founded in October 2007 by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal (no relation). Flipkart has launched its own product range under the name "DigiFlip" with products including tablets, USBs, and laptop bags. As of April 2017, the company was valued at $11.6 billion.