Snapdeal strengthens its Technology Team; appoints Jeyandran Venugopal as Technology Advisor

Media Brief

New Delhi, February 24, 2015

Snapdeal.com, India's largest online marketplace strengthens its technology leadership with the appointment of Jeyandran Venugopal as a Technology Advisor. Jeyandran will be associated with the Snapdeal family in an advisory capacity and work with the leadership team to lay down the strategic technology roadmap for the future.

Snapdeal has been ramping up its engineering team aggressively to further build and enhance customer and seller experience on its site. With the aspiration to become a globally renowned technology leader, Snapdeal’s 1000+ people strong engineering team aims to continue raising the bar on technology that enables great buyer and seller experience.

Jeyandran will work closely with Snapdeal’s technology leadership team to scale up and further improve the underlying architecture and use his rich experience to make the Snapdeal platform future ready.

Jeyandran comes with over 16 years of rich experience in leading global technology companies like Amazon and Yahoo. He has been instrumental in building the right technology backbones and creating some of their core systems. He was also a part of the team that set up Amazon’s India offices during his stint at the company. He holds a number of patents in his name for his path breaking work in technology. Prior to Snapdeal, he was a Vice President and a part of the executive leadership team at the Yahoo R&D Division in Bangalore.

“We are thrilled to have Jeyandran as an advisor for the Snapdeal family. He comes with a rich experience and has played game changing roles in his previous organizations. Technology and innovation are at the core of our company, and we are positive that given his passion for technology, he will enable Snapdeal to continue to innovate and create life changing experience for buyers and sellers.” said Rohit Bansal, Co-founder at Snapdeal.com.

Speaking about his appointment, Jeyandran Venugopal said, “e-Commerce is one of the fastest growing sectors in the country today. I find Snapdeal’s vision to be really inspiring and ambitious and am very excited to be a part of building world class products in India for Indian consumers and merchants. Having worked in the internet space for several years, I want to use my experience and knowledge of the product and technology aspect of this area in assisting Snapdeal to become the best technology platform in the country.”

For further information, please contact:

Anjana Swaminathan

Email: anjana.swaminathan@snapdeal.com

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