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

.Agent ImageSoftbank-backed e-commerce firm Meesho on Friday said it has selected Jubilant Bhartia Team creator Hari S Bhartia along with three other skilled business leaders as independent directors. Alongside Bhartia, Meesho has onboarded past JP Morgan Chairman Kalpana Morparia for South and South East Asia, PhonePe non-executive Leader of the board Rohit Bhagat, and San Francisco-based artificial intelligence firm Ema's CEO Surojit Chatterjee. "As we embark on the upcoming stage of development, I am actually enjoyed announce the appointment of Surojit Chatterjee, Kalpana Morparia, Rohit Bhagat, and also Hari S. Bhartia as individual directors to Meesho's panel," Meesho, Creator and CEO Vidit Aatrey mentioned in a claim. Bhartia is the Creator and also Co-Chairman of Jubilant Bhartia Group. The Jubilant Bhartia Group possesses four main firms specified on Indian stock exchanges, along with a bundled market capitalisation of approximately USD 7.65 billion, it added. Bhartia is likewise the Co-Chairman and Handling Director of Jubilant Pharmova Ltd in addition to Co-Chairman of Joyous Ingrevia Ltd and Jubilant FoodWorks Ltd, the owner franchisee of Mask's Pizza and Dunkin' Donuts bistros in India. Prior to providing JP Morgan, Morparia was at ICICI Financial institution where she was instrumental in the group's capital bring up physical exercise and also the merging of ICICI Ltd along with ICICI Banking Company in 2002. Bhagat is presently the non-executive Leader of the panel at PhonePe, a private supervisor at AssetMark as well as the Lead Independent Trustee of the Franklin Templeton ETF Leave. His previous board and also advising jobs span companies like Axis Banking company, Flipkart, and FreeCharge. Chatterjee had helped Coinbase via an effective IPO as its own Chief Product Officer in 2021. Formerly at Google.com, Surojit scaled Google Mobile Ads as well as Google Shopping in to multi-billion-dollar companies as the VP and also Head of Item. "Our team are confident that their cumulative knowledge as well as unique perspectives are going to participate in a crucial job in steering the company in the direction of brand new landmarks and also sustained excellence in transforming the e-commerce garden in India," Aatrey pointed out. Meesho's panel additionally features co-founders Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal Ashutosh Sharma, Head of Investments and Mergers and Acquisitions at Prosus Ventures Mohit Bhatnagar, Taking Care Of Director at Top XV Partners Mukul Arora, Co-Managing Partner at Altitude Funds and Sarthak Misra, Partner at SoftBank Assets Advisers.
Released On Aug 2, 2024 at 12:19 PM IST.




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