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Info Edge (India) Announces Changes to its Board of Directors

Oct 16, 2014   19:19 IST 
New Delhi, Delhi, India

Infoedge (India) ltd today announced the appointments of Chintan Thakkar, CFO, Infoedge India and Sharad Malik as Additional Director on its board. Mr. Malik is the Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. Mr. Thakkar’s last assignment was as CFO of Computer Associates (CA Technologies) in India. It also announced that Ashish Gupta, a Non-executive Independent Director has stepped down from the position of Independent board of director of the company. The changes to its Board are effective from October 16, 2014.

 

Commenting on the appointments, Hitesh Oberoi, Managing Director and CEO, Info edge (India) said “The induction of Chintan and Sharad strengthens and brings diversity into the board of the company. The depth of knowledge and variety of experience that these leaders have will contribute vastly to the growth of Infoedge. On behalf of board, I take this opportunity to thank Ashish Gupta for his contribution to the company and wish him success in his future endeavors”.

 

The company’s founder and Executive Vice Chairman, Sanjeev Bikhchandani said “We are pleased to welcome Chintan and Sharad on the board and are confident that they will provide valuable inputs to the company since they bring wealth of business acumen along with them. We look forward to take advantage from their perspectives and valuable insights”.

 

About Infoedge:

Info Edge (India) Limited (NSE: NAUKRI) is among the leading internet companies in India. Info Edge runs leading internet businesses - Naukri.com - India’s no. 1 job site, Jeevansathi.com – one of the leading matrimonial portals, 99acres.com - India’s No.1 real estate portal and Shiksha.com – India’s leading education portal. The company also owns Quadrangle – an offline executive search business, and Naukri Gulf (a leading jobsite in the Middle East market). Info Edge also owns Brijj.com, a professional networking site and Allcheckdeals.com, an online real estate brokerage firm which is run as a subsidiary company.

 

Apart from this Info Edge has made significant strategic investments into emerging internet companies – meritnation.com, policybazaar.com, mydala.com, Canvera.com, happily unmarried.com and zomato.com

 

Info Edge has ventured into newer businesses & markets, invested in internet start-ups. The company has attracted a very high quality list of institutional shareholders. With its headquarters in Noida (NCR), the company employs around 3100 people and operates through 56 offices in 42 cities in India and overseas offices in Dubai, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and Bahrain catering to the Middle East market.


 
 
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