Swiggy’s COO, Vivek Sunder, is moving on from the company by October to pursue other interests. For the interim, the food delivery app’s CEO, Sriharsha Majety, will oversee this role.
Majety informed the company’s employees about Sunder’s decision to move on in an internal email. “On the organizational side, Vivek has played a key role in infusing large org[anisation] thinking in the company with a constant focus on scalability. He has also played a pivotal role in laying the seeds of practising deep consumer empathy in the way we look at our products and offerings, and leveraging it to come up with simple moves that can drive big gains in consumer perception as opposed to technically complex solutions,” Majety wrote in the memo.
He also lauded Sunder’s role in expanding the food platform’s geographical footprint, taking it to over 500 cities and managing its on-ground operations during the lockdown.
A graduate of IIM Calcutta, Sunder specialised in marketing, finance and economics. He has over two decades With over 20 years of experience in the the FMCG sector, he was the MD for P&G’s East Africa operations before joining Swiggy three years ago.
In an unrelated development, Rahul Jaimini, Co-founder and CTO of Swiggy, had resigned from the company in May 2020 and later joined Pesto Tech as a Co-founder.
The food delivery platform has recently received $800 million funding from existing investors, like Prosus and Accel, as well as Falcon Edge, Amansa Capital, Think Investments, Carmignac and Goldman Sachs.
