Flipkart strengthens its Tech org structure

Flipkart, India’s leading e-commerce marketplace, is strengthening its Tech org with Jeyandran Venugopal (Jey) being elevated as the Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO). In this role, Jey will provide strategic leadership to the organisation and define the technology vision for the company with a specific focus on building future capabilities across product and engineering.

Flipkart has a robust tech team that has contributed immensely to building a robust, resilient and scalable platform that gives Flipkart a competitive advantage for the future. Jey will facilitate prioritization of technology investments and drive continued agility in decision-making while working closely with tech & business leaders across the organisation.

Kalyan Krishnamurthy, CEO of Flipkart Group, said, “In our vision to solve for commerce through technology in India, our world-class technology leaders have played a key role and will continue to do in future as well. We are strengthening our technology capabilities every day and Jey will play an anchor along with the most talented team that we have.”

“In his new role, he will continue to strengthen the team, tech investments and help implement new technologies at the pace and the scale that will enable us to become an even more agile, future-ready organization so that we can bring millions of new customers and sellers on our platform to achieve our vision to democratize e-commerce in India and solve complex local challenges that country faces,” he added.

Jey has been with the Flipkart Group for more than two years and has previously served as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Myntra, before moving to Flipkart in January 2019.