Hires & Promotions: Myntra, Mohalla Tech, DigiflixTV

Nandita Sinha names CEO of Myntra

Online fashion retailer Myntra has named Nandita Sinha as its CEO, effective January 2022. She is currently the VP of Customer Growth and Marketing at Flipkart, overseeing marketing for the e-comm company.

Sinha replaces Myntra's outgoing CEO Amar Nagaram who has been with the company for seven years. With her appointment, the group gets its first female CEO.

As of now, details of Sinha's replacement are not known. 

Mohalla Tech appoints Gaurav Bhatia as SVP and Head of Engineering

Mohalla Tech, the parent company of ShareChat and Moj has appointed Gaurav Bhatia as Senior Vice President and Head of Engineering.

With a career spanning over two decades, Gaurav brings a wealth of knowledge to the ShareChat & Moj team. In his new role, he will be leading all product development for ShareChat and Moj including Android and iOS application development, backend software development, infrastructure and information security.

Gaurav joins Mohalla Tech from Auditoria.ai which he co-founded. Having worked in both large companies such as Intuit, Oracle, MakeMyTrip as well as early-stage VC-funded startups including Palerra, Auditoria.ai in both Silicon Valley, California and India, he has experience in building successful software products as well as leading world-class teams.

Speaking about Gaurav’s appointment, Bhanu Pratap Singh, Cofounder & Chief Technology Officer, Mohalla Tech said, “Serving exceptional social experiences to our community using cutting edge technology is key to our long term success and rapid growth. Gaurav with his varied experience in product development across technology companies brings a deep knowledge of the industry. I am confident he will help us strengthen our proposition, as well as set the stage for the next phase of success for both ShareChat and Moj.”

Commenting on his appointment, Gaurav Bhatia said “I am thrilled to be a part of the Mohalla Tech team, to be leading its Engineering division and driving growth for its products. ShareChat is revolutionising the social media landscape with its Indic language offering and with Moj leading the short video segment, the org is at an inflection point of creating new milestones. It is an incredible opportunity to be at the helm of this change and redefine users’ social experience with the power of technology.”

An active member of the startup community, Gaurav has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland at College Park and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and has been granted over a dozen US patents

DigiflixTV appoints Nannditaa Kothari as Chief Operating Officer

Inception Media's Creative Director Nannditaa V Kothari has joined OTT and short video platform DigiflixTV as Chief Operating Officer.

Nannditaa, an experienced professional in creative and business processes in commercial, television, and feature film production has previously worked with giants like BIG Magic, Viniyard Films, Shashi Sumeet Productions, Endemol among others.

At Inception Media, Nannditaa has produced shows like Khaki, The Reunions, Crime Alert. Also produced shows for Big Magic, Dangal, Life OK, Ullu, Gujarati film - The Reunion, to name a few.

Nannditaa Kothari, the COO shares, "I have joined DigiFlix with a vision to provide wholesome entertainment - where the entire family can sit together and watch a show on an OTT platform. Our platform will have shows of all genres. With DigiFlix, we want to give a fresh perspective to OTT content. So far a certain kind of content has taken precedent and we plan to change that and address the masses in doing so. A large chunk of TV audience have been neglected or rather overlooked, those are the audience that we want to cater to."