Kalyan Krishnamurthy rejoins Flipkart, to head category management

   In an attempt to strengthen its leadership team and ward off attack from rival Amazon, Flipkart has bough back its old employee, Kalyan Krishnamurthy, to head category management at Flipkart.
  

   Kalyan Krishnamurthy – a managing director at Tiger Global, which is ironically the largest investor in Flipkart – will be Head – Category Design Organisation at Flipkart, as per his LinkedIn profile. He will report directly to Chief Executive Officer Binny Bansal.

   During his last stint at Flipkart starting in early 2013, he served as the head of categories and as interim chief financial officer. In November 2014, he left the company to join the Singapore office of Tiger Global.

   Tiger Global is also an investor in Amazon, which has recently committed a further $3 billion in its India unit, taking its total investment in the country since mid 2014 up to $5 billion.

   Since the beginning of 2016, Flipkart has seen various top level exits from the firm. Chief Product Officer Punit Soni, Chief Business Officer Ankit Nagori, Head of Seller Business Manish Maheshwari and Head of Commerce & Advertising Mukesh Bansal are some bigwigs who quit the company recently.