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

.Agent ImageSoftbank-backed shopping organization Meesho on Friday claimed it has selected Jubilant Bhartia Group founder Hari S Bhartia along with 3 other seasoned business leaders as independent supervisors. Together with Bhartia, Meesho has onboarded past JP Morgan Chairman Kalpana Morparia for South and South East Asia, PhonePe non-executive Chairman of the board Rohit Bhagat, and also San Francisco-based artificial intelligence provider Ema's CEO Surojit Chatterjee. "As our company embark on the following phase of development, I am actually enjoyed announce the appointment of Surojit Chatterjee, Kalpana Morparia, Rohit Bhagat, and Hari S. Bhartia as private directors to Meesho's board," Meesho, Owner and chief executive officer Vidit Aatrey stated in a declaration. Bhartia is the Owner as well as Co-Chairman of Jubilant Bhartia Team. The Jubilant Bhartia Group has four crown jewel providers specified on Indian stock exchanges, along with a mixed market capitalisation of around USD 7.65 billion, it included. Bhartia is likewise the Co-Chairman and also Handling Supervisor of Jubilant Pharmova Ltd and also Co-Chairman of Joyous Ingrevia Ltd and Jubilant FoodWorks Ltd, the owner franchisee of Mask's Pizza and Dunkin' Donuts bistros in India. Before serving JP Morgan, Morparia was at ICICI Banking company where she was instrumental in the team's funding raising workout as well as the merger of ICICI Ltd along with ICICI Banking Company in 2002. Bhagat is actually presently the non-executive Chairman of the board at PhonePe, an individual director at AssetMark as well as the Lead Independent Fiduciary of the Franklin Templeton ETF Rely On. His previous board and also advisory roles span business like Center Financial institution, Flipkart, and also FreeCharge. Chatterjee had actually assisted Coinbase with a prosperous IPO as its Chief Item Police Officer in 2021. Previously at Google.com, Surojit scaled Google.com Mobile Advertisements and Google.com Shopping in to multi-billion-dollar businesses as the VP and also Chief of Item. "Our team are actually self-assured that their collective understanding and varied standpoints will participate in a pivotal task in steering the company in the direction of new landmarks and sustained excellence in changing the shopping landscape in India," Aatrey pointed out. Meesho's panel also consists of co-founders Vidit Aatrey as well as Sanjeev Barnwal Ashutosh Sharma, Scalp of Investments and also Mergers as well as Acquisitions at Prosus Ventures Mohit Bhatnagar, Handling Supervisor at Optimal XV Allies Mukul Arora, Co-Managing Partner at Elevation Funding as well as Sarthak Misra, Partner at SoftBank Assets Advisers.
Released On Aug 2, 2024 at 12:19 PM IST.




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