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Meesho onboards Hari Bhartia, Kalpana Morparia, Rohit Bhagat as independent directors, ET Retail

.Rep ImageSoftbank-backed e-commerce company Meesho on Friday stated it has actually appointed Jubilant Bhartia Team owner Hari S Bhartia in addition to three various other professional business leaders as individual supervisors. Along with Bhartia, Meesho has onboarded past JP Morgan Chairman Kalpana Morparia for South as well as South East Asia, PhonePe non-executive Leader of the board Rohit Bhagat, and also San Francisco-based AI provider Ema's chief executive officer Surojit Chatterjee. "As our company start the upcoming phase of growth, I am thrilled to reveal the appointment of Surojit Chatterjee, Kalpana Morparia, Rohit Bhagat, and Hari S. Bhartia as private directors to Meesho's panel," Meesho, Founder and CEO Vidit Aatrey mentioned in a statement. Bhartia is actually the Creator and also Co-Chairman of Jubilant Bhartia Group. The Jubilant Bhartia Team has 4 front runner firms detailed on Indian stock market, with a combined market capitalisation of around USD 7.65 billion, it added. Bhartia is additionally the Co-Chairman and also Taking Care Of Director of Jubilant Pharmova Ltd and also Co-Chairman of Pleased Ingrevia Ltd as well as Jubilant FoodWorks Ltd, the owner franchisee of Mask's Pizza and Dunkin' Donuts restaurants in India. Prior to providing JP Morgan, Morparia went to ICICI Bank where she contributed in the group's capital increasing exercise along with the merging of ICICI Ltd with ICICI Financial Institution in 2002. Bhagat is currently the non-executive Chairman of the board at PhonePe, an independent director at AssetMark and also the Lead Independent Fiduciary of the Franklin Templeton ETF Trust. His previous board and also advising roles cover companies like Center Banking company, Flipkart, and also FreeCharge. Chatterjee had led Coinbase by means of a productive IPO as its Principal Product Officer in 2021. Earlier at Google.com, Surojit sized Google.com Mobile Ads and also Google Shopping right into multi-billion-dollar businesses as the VP and also Director of Product. "Our company are actually confident that their collective knowledge as well as assorted perspectives are going to participate in a critical function in steering the company towards new turning points and also continual results in changing the e-commerce landscape in India," Aatrey mentioned. Meesho's board likewise features co-founders Vidit Aatrey and also Sanjeev Barnwal Ashutosh Sharma, Head of Investments and also Mergers and also Acquisitions at Prosus Ventures Mohit Bhatnagar, Dealing With Supervisor at Optimal XV Allies Mukul Arora, Co-Managing Partner at Elevation Resources as well as Sarthak Misra, Partner at SoftBank Assets Advisers.
Posted On Aug 2, 2024 at 12:19 PM IST.




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