Kalyan Krishnamurthy is the current CEO of Flipkart ( Flipkart is an electronic commerce company which is used for online shopping. It is founded by Sachin Bansal & Binny Bansal in 2007. Its headquarter is in Bengaluru )
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Kalyan Krishnamurthy was born on 12 January 1972. He currently lives in Singapore, but his nationality is INDIAN. He is 49 years old. He is 5 feet 6 inches tall and his weight is about 65 kgs. He has brown colored eyes and his hair color is Black. He belongs to a Hindu family. He is married. There is not much information about his wife. He is thought to have a low background with a good upbringing. His horoscope is Capricorn. He is very fond of reading books. His favorite foods are bread and pizza. His favorite actor is Amitabh Bachchan. His favorite actress is Hema Malini. He likes watching Football. His favorite singer is Kumar Sanu.
EDUCATION
Kalyan Krishnamurthy completed his MBA at the Asian Institute of Management in 2000. He also holds another MBA in finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign-College.
CAREER
Kalyan at first joined Flipkart in June 2016 as head of the Category Design Organisation and replaced co-founder Binny Bansal, who was made the group CEO. Before even joining Flipkart, he was also the managing director of Tiger Global. In May 2016, he left Tiger Global Management LLC. Then in June 2016, he was made the CEO of Flipkart Online Service Pvt. Ltd. Kalyan has more than 25,000 followers on Twitter and is not popular on other social media platforms besides Twitter. He also manages supply chain financing at Procter & Gamble and even manages finance on eBay in the Asia Pacific. Kalyan has also held various senior positions at eBay, including Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at eBay Asia-Pacific, and also works as Country Finance. director (South-east Asia, Hong Kong) at eBay. He had always justified the trust and responsibility given to him at eBay where he worked for around 6 years in various capacities. Upon joining Flipkart, he replaced co-founder Binny Bansal. According to Internet reports, he was appointed CEO of Flipkart and replaced Biny Bansal because Binny had difficulty attracting new investors to the company. Kalyan has made a total of 9 Personal and 7 Partner investments to date. His personal investments include companies like Vokal, Qoohoo, Raise Financial Services, Newton School, Tring, Unacademy, Terraview, Moglix, and Opentalk. His partner investments are PhonePe, Universal Sportsbiz, Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail, Ninjacart, Arvind Youth Brands, and Chaayos. He has a net worth of $1.2 Billion USD. His income comes mainly from his job as a CEO at Flipkart.
Profile of Kalyan Krishnamurthy
Kalyan is considered the doyen of e-commerce. He has in-depth knowledge of day-to-day business in the field, and many industry analysts believe it is the best thing Flipkart has if he wants to stop Amazon’s early rise in the market. in India.
Tiger Global Management, a well-known investment company based in New York, hired him in 2011. Two years later, Tiger sent him to Flipkart as Head – Category Design. And now he is the CEO of Flipkart.
Kalyan Krishnamurthy is considered a key lieutenant by Lee Fixel – the head of Tiger Global, which is Flipkart’s largest shareholder. Lee Fixel is also called the God Father of Flipkart as he always went a step ahead to keep this Bengaluru-based e-commerce venture to alive. However, the growing loss of Flipkart in recent years has become a matter of concern. Tiger Global can’t see its money getting wasted in such a huge market like India. Binny Bansal is especially perceived as someone who has no business skills to stand up to a giant like Amazon. Tiger Global forced the management of Flipkart to accept its person as CEO, who should also be responsible for the organization’s revenues and losses. Even they do not have a hard time as a major shareholder.
