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Flipkart Names New CEO, Binny Bansal to Become Group CEO

Krishnamurthy, a former Tiger Global executive, joined Flipkart in June last year as head of its commerce unit.

Reuters

09 January 2017

BENGALURU, India — Flipkart, India's top e-commerce group, appointed Kalyan Krishnamurthy as chief executive officer, replacing co-founder Binny Bansal.

Bansal will take over the newly created position of group chief executive officer.

Krishnamurthy, a former Tiger Global executive, joined Flipkart in June last year as head of its commerce unit.

The move comes a year after Binny Bansal took over as chief executive officer from co-founder Sachin Bansal.

By Laharee Chatterjee; editor: Saumyadeb Chakrabarty.

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