Surojit Chatterjee appointed as Senior Vice President of Flipkart

Homegrown e-commerce giant Flipkart has appointed Google’s executive Surojit Chatterjee as Senior Vice President and Head of Consumer Experience and Growth. In the new role, he will be responsible for all Flipkart’s consumer experience across desktop as well as mobile and will directly report to Chief Product Officer (CPO) of company Punit Soni. Prior to this appointment, Chatterjee for last 8 years was working at Google and his most recent post was the global head of Mobile Search Advertising and AdSense for Search (AFS). He is also the founding member of Google’s mobile search ads. He had helped the search engine giant to make mobile search ads a growth engine for Google which had led into a multi-billion dollar business. Chatterjee holds a BS degree in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur and MS in Computer Science from SUNY Buffalo. He also holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and is credited with total 33 granted US patents to his name.