Flipkart hires another Google boss

05 Nov '15

2 min read

E-commerce major Flipkart has appointed former Google product management director, Surojit Chatterjee as Senior Vice President and Head of Consumer Experience and Growth, according to media reports. In his role, Chatterjee will be responsible for all consumer experience across desktop and mobile, and will report to Punit Soni, Chief Product Officer,

Chatterjee, who has 33 US patents to his name, most recently was the global head of mobile search advertising and adsense for search at Google, developing it into a multi-billion dollar business. Prior to Google, Chatterjee worked as a senior product manager at Symantec Corporation and senior engineer at Oracle and IBM.

"Millions of people in India are connecting to the internet for the first time every month thanks to mobile technology - a transformation that is revolutionizing Indian society. I'm incredibly excited to join Flipkart to help shape India's bright future," said Chatterjee.

Mukesh Bansal, Head, Commerce platform, Flipkart said, "Surojit's experience helping build and scale a multi-billion dollar business from scratch, deep knowledge of product management, global e-commerce and tremendous expertise in mobile advertising will help Flipkart. He will be part of the leadership team and help innovate and improve all the ways we serve our customers." (SH)

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