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

.Agent ImageSoftbank-backed shopping agency Meesho on Friday mentioned it has selected Jubilant Bhartia Group founder Hari S Bhartia alongside three other professional magnate as individual supervisors. Alongside Bhartia, Meesho has actually onboarded past JP Morgan Chairman Kalpana Morparia for South and also South East Asia, PhonePe non-executive Chairman of the panel Rohit Bhagat, and also San Francisco-based artificial intelligence provider Ema's CEO Surojit Chatterjee. "As our company embark on the following period of development, I am actually enjoyed declare the visit of Surojit Chatterjee, Kalpana Morparia, Rohit Bhagat, and Hari S. Bhartia as private supervisors to Meesho's board," Meesho, Creator and also chief executive officer Vidit Aatrey claimed in a statement. Bhartia is actually the Owner and Co-Chairman of Jubilant Bhartia Team. The Jubilant Bhartia Group has 4 front runner companies listed on Indian stock market, along with a bundled market capitalisation of approximately USD 7.65 billion, it incorporated. Bhartia is actually likewise the Co-Chairman and also Handling Supervisor of Jubilant Pharmova Ltd and also Co-Chairman of Jubilant Ingrevia Ltd and also Jubilant FoodWorks Ltd, the owner franchisee of Domino's Pizza and Dunkin' Donuts restaurants in India. Prior to serving JP Morgan, Morparia was at ICICI Financial institution where she was instrumental in the group's funding increasing workout and also the merger of ICICI Ltd along with ICICI Banking Company in 2002. Bhagat is actually currently the non-executive Leader of the board at PhonePe, an individual supervisor at AssetMark and also the Lead Independent Trustee of the Franklin Templeton ETF Rely On. His previous board and also advising tasks extend companies like Axis Banking company, Flipkart, and FreeCharge. Chatterjee had guided Coinbase by means of a successful IPO as its own Principal Product Officer in 2021. Previously at Google, Surojit scaled Google.com Mobile Adds and Google.com Shopping right into multi-billion-dollar companies as the VP and Head of Product. "We are actually positive that their collective knowledge and varied perspectives will certainly participate in a pivotal part in steering the firm towards brand new turning points and also continual success in reinventing the e-commerce yard in India," Aatrey said. Meesho's panel also consists of founders Vidit Aatrey as well as Sanjeev Barnwal Ashutosh Sharma, Head of Investments as well as Mergers and also Acquisitions at Prosus Ventures Mohit Bhatnagar, Handling Supervisor at Optimal XV Allies Mukul Arora, Co-Managing Partner at Altitude Capital and Sarthak Misra, Partner at SoftBank Expenditure Advisers.
Released On Aug 2, 2024 at 12:19 PM IST.




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