Flipkart hires former Tata Comm executive as VP of corporate affairs

Flipkart, India's largest e-commerce company, has appointed former Tata Communications executive Sanjiv Saddy as Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Business Development, the company said in a release on Monday.

Saddy, a chartered accountant, has over three decades of experience, and will focus on building relationship with various stakeholders and establishing Flipkart as the voice of the e-commerce industry, the e-tailer said.

He will also help the tax team with policy and administrative issues and will aid in real estate and business development at Flipkart, the company added.

Before joining Flipkart, Saddy was with Tata Communications as Senior Vice President and Head - Business Support, Regulatory, Real Estate & Corporate Affairs.

"Sanjiv's keen sense of judgement in dealing with a myriad complex situations, and his finance and legal expertise will definitely help in enhancing the effectiveness of the Flipkart business teams,"  said Sanjay Baweja, Chief Financial Officer of Flipkart, to whom Saddy would report.

Flipkart, which has been expanding extensively, has recently roped in many top executives from various companies.

In November itself, the e-commerce firm hired Google's Surojit Chatterjee to head consumer experience across desktop and mobile and Twitter's Tarun Jain as Head of Product, ads division.

Earlier in the year, it had hired three tech executives from Amazon,  Google and Microsoft for different roles in the company.  However, Flipkart is not the only e-tailer which is poaching talent from top companies - its rival Snapdeal has also been following the same strategy.

Snapdeal had appointed former TaxiForSure Chief Technology Officer Amitava Ghosh as Vice President of Engineering in August.  The company has also roped in several executives from Airtel, Adobe, Aircel and P&G.