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Google's Ambarish Kenghe Joins Myntra As Head Of Product

BW Online Bureau Jul 14, 2015

Flipkart continued its policy of big ticket hires on Tuesday (14 July) as Ambarish Kenghe,  co-founder and product management lead for Google Chromecast and a key member of the Google TV team, joined Myntra, a leading m-commerce platform owned by Flipkart, as Senior Vice President and Head of Product. Ambarish will start working at Myntra’s Bengaluru headquarters by the end of this month and will report to CEO, Mukesh Bansal to scale up Myntra’s product road map while leveraging the mobile smartphone revolution in India. Myntra was acquired by Flipkart last year. Two months ago Myntra became an app-only player. Kenghe is the second Google executive to join Flipkart. In March, Punit Soni, a Google product management executive and former vice president of product management at Motorola, joined Flipkart as its new chief product officer.  <table style="width: 300px;" border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" align="right"><tbody><tr><td><img alt="" src="http://bw-image.s3.amazonaws.com/Ambarish-Kenghe300.jpg" style="width: 300px; height: 300px; margin: 1px; float: right;"></td></tr><tr><td>Ambarish Kenghe</td></tr></tbody></table>With more than 15 years of experience in product development and management, Ambarish Kenghe had been instrumental in the conceptualisation of Chromecast, making it one of the best selling electronic devices and one of the highly decorated hardware products from Google. Before Google, he was a management consultant at Bain & Company, Technical leader at Cisco where he worked on Catalyst 6000, a highly appreciated product. He has multiple patents from his work there. "We are excited to have Ambarish join our leadership team to lead product management. He has an extensive experience in developing various world class consumer products including Google Chromecast. He will be driving product innovation to build the next generation of mobile products to deliver a highly engaging &personalised fashion experience to our customers", said Mukesh Bansal, CEO, Myntra and Head of Commerce, Flipkart.   Excited about his new role, Kenghe said, “I am honoured to join a company such as Myntra that is re-writing the rules of the game. I am looking forward to being part of the amazing team obsessed with developing the best-in-class product experience for customers by constantly engaging in solving unique challenges for consuming & buying fashion online using technology & product insights.” He further added, “I am also excited about moving to India where a large chunk of next billion Internet users will come from. India has a confluence of factors coming together to make it a once in a lifetime opportunity for technology professionals to make a difference.” Kenghe holds an MBA from Berkeley and Master’s degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Purdue University and IIT Kanpur.