MUMBAI: Restaurants Discovery and Online food ordering app, Zomato, yesterday appointed Mohit Gupta as CEO for its food delivery business.
Zomato has been working on strengthening its leadership team and aims at a long-term vision of "better food for more people". The company is also experimenting with products that solve for affordability, accessibility, assortment and quality of food for the users, within India as well as globally.
"We're thrilled to have Mohit join our team - he is one of the few internet industry veterans who has helped build a formidable transactions business in India. He's a widely respected leader, and we're excited to learn from him, and further build our rapidly growing food delivery business with him," said Zomato founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal as quoted by DNA.
Gupta, who has about 20 years of experience joined MakeMyTrip in 2008 and worked in several senior positions in the company. As the chief operating officer he was responsible for the business delivery, growth and profitability of the entire online business for Makemytrip India. In between, he also worked with e-commerce website like Zovi.com for one year. Before joining Zovi.com, he worked with PepsiCo for about seven years where he last served as vice president marketing.
He holds an MBA degree from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and has studied mechanical engineering from Sardar Patel University.
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