Nykaa on Monday announced multiple changes in its senior leadership with the appointment of Rajesh Uppalapati as the Chief Technology Officer, P. Ganesh as Nykaa’s Chief Financial Officer and Sujeet Jain as the company’s Chief Legal & Regulatory Officer.
In a statement, Falguni Nayar, Founder and CEO, Nykaa said, “We are excited to welcome each of these new leaders in key roles that drive the company’s important businesses and functions. With a common entrepreneurial ethos and mindset, this leadership team is well poised for success as the Nykaa ecosystem expands in scope and scale.”
Beyond Rajesh Uppalapati, Abhishek Awasthi, Eswar Perla, Dhruv Mathur and Amit Kulshrestha have joined the existing technology leadership team. With a collective experience of over 60 years between the three across organisations such as Walmart, Amazon, Magicpin and LBB, they are taking on key roles in product and engineering.
Vishal Gupta, a seasoned veteran, with over 27 years of experience at Unilever has extensive experience across geographies and BPC categories, has been picked as the head of Beauty Consumer business at Nykaa, he leads innovation, brand building, growth and profitability for the business. He will also lead Superstore By Nykaa, the eB2B distribution business. He will spearhead the next leg of growth for these two strategic and high growth businesses.
Meanwhile, Nykaa’s Marketing leadership has also been beefed up with new leaders joining the charter; Sudhansh Kumar, leading performance marketing, Priya Bellubbi, leading customer lifecycle management and Suchita Salwan, leading the content charter.
The new senior leaders across technology, finance, business, and marketing will spearhead Nykaa’s next phase of growth. These leaders will join existing leadership, now comprising over 50 leaders.
