Nykaa makes new leadership appointments

Beauty and fashion brand Nykaa, has announced that it has welcomed new senior leaders across the technology, finance, business, and marketing departments to spearhead its next phase of growth. The new leaders will join existing leadership, now comprising over 50 leaders, and will be instrumental in driving the company's growth agenda forward. 

Falguni Nayar, Founder & CEO, Nykaa, says, speaking about the appointments, “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."

Rajesh Uppalapati has joined the company as the Chief Technology Officer. “Having worked for Amazon for 20 years across different roles and geographies and more recently at Intuit, he has a proven track record of delivering successful, world-class, large-scale, performance critical technology projects while leading large teams,” says the compant statement. It adds that 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 them across organizations such as Walmart, Amazon, Magicpin and LBB, they take on key roles in product and engineering, helping to drive innovation and growth across the company's digital platforms.

Vishal Gupta, who comes with over 27 years of experience at Unilever, is Head of Beauty Consumer business at Nykaa, and he will lead innovation, brand building, growth and profitability for the business, shares the company and adds that he will also lead Superstore By Nykaa, the eB2B distribution business and spearhead the next leg of growth for these two strategic and high growth businesses.

The company has also added news leaders to its Marketing & Customer Growth team. “
”They bring with them diverse knowledge and experiences of over 40 years between them across digitally led organizations, including Amazon, Myntra, Livspace, Hotstar and LBB. These new roles reflect Nykaa's commitment to customer-centric marketing strategies that drive growth and loyalty,” the company statement adds.