Flipkart elevates five senior executives as senior VPs

BENGALURU: Walmart-owned ecommerce marketplace Flipkart has elevated five senior executives to the level of Senior vice-president. The elevations of Manish Kumar, Anand Lakshminarayanan, Ranjith Boyanapalli, Ravish Kumar Sinha and Ravi Iyer were announced in an email sent by Flipkart Group CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy on Sunday.

This brings the total number of executives at the level of Senior vice-president to 14 in the homegrown etailer.

A Flipkart spokesperson confirmed the development.


“We have been able to create a lot of leaders internally and that practice continues,” said a senior executive at Flipkart who did not want to be named. “It’s Kalyan’s style of grooming people he has worked with and taking along his most trusted lieutenants.”