On-line trend retailer has onboarded Rajesh Uppalapati as the brand new chief know-how officer (CTO). Rajesh is a pc science-graduate from College of Arizona and spent almost twenty years at Amazon throughout Seattle, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru.
Earlier than becoming a member of the FSN Ecommerce Ventures Ltd-run firm, Rajesh was the vp of product engineering at Intuit.
“This comes at an thrilling time in our enterprise the place we’re extending our choices throughout a number of enterprise verticals and platforms. We proceed to prioritise elevating shopper expertise, product discovery, and hyper-personalisation,” mentioned Falguni Nayar, Founder and CEO, Nykaa, in a launch shared by the corporate.
This improvement additionally comes at a time when Nykaa is accelerating its worldwide enlargement throughout Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, and Kuwait, amongst different Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations. The wonder ecommerce additionally partnered with Dubai-based Attire Group to help within the course of and leverage the altering magnificence tendencies throughout GCC nations.
Commenting on his appointment, Rajesh Uppalapati mentioned, “I’m thrilled to affix Nykaa to assist speed up the corporate’s effort in the direction of constructing platforms providing superior safety, accessibility, and personalisation that interact with their millions-strong shopper base for the long-term. I stay up for leveraging my data of constructing platforms and merchandise extra environment friendly and embracing probably the most related exterior know-how tendencies to create a extra immersive procuring expertise for Nykaa’s consumers.”
Nykaa, which was based in 2012 by Falguni Nayar, grew to become the Indian startup ecosystem’s poster little one for scaling digital magnificence throughout India. This was adopted by the corporate’s blockbuster public market itemizing in 2021. Nykaa additionally runs a trend vertical, and has about 10 in-house manufacturers within the magnificence class together with Nykaa Naturals, Nykaa Cosmetics, and Kay Magnificence.
