Swiggy Appoints Aparna Giridhar As VP Marketing

Swiggy recently roped in Aparna Giridhar as VP marketing replacing Ashish Lingamneni, who stepped down after almost six years as VP marketing.

Giridhar joined the food and grocery delivery platform from Unilever, where she worked for 11 years, stepping down as HUL's General Manager, eCommerce, in April. Giridhar was responsible for heading the eCommerce business in terms of growth and market share for the B2C business across all verticals - coupled with driving and delivering the business strategy for e-commerce through portfolio, media, performance marketing and scaling launches.

After doing a summer internship at Unilever Singapore, Giridhar joined the multinational in India in 2012 as part of Unilever Future Leaders Program. From being an area sales manager in Chennai, she climbed the ranks to become the general manager, eCommerce. During her time at Unilever she has handled several brands including, Lakme and Glow & Lovely.