Durga Raghunath has quit Zomato as its Senior Vice President of growth, within six months of being appointed in the position. Subsequently, she joined the publishing company Juggernaut Books, which launched just last week. Raghunath had joined Zomato after being the CEO of Network18 Digital where she was responsible for all its content properties including Moneycontrol, Burrp!, IBNLive and Mobile18. Raghunath was also the CEO of Firstpost. She had previously joined Web18 as VP in 2010 and was subsequently appointed as the CEO of Firstpost in 2013. Promoted as the CEO of Network18 Digital in 2014, she later quit the company in July last year. In September last year, Zomato had appointed Rameet Arora, former senior director of Corporate Communication and Menu Management at McDonald’s India as its Chief Marketing Officer. Arora replaced former CMO Alok Jain, who had quit the month before, just 10 months after his appointment. Subsequently in June this year, Arora himself quit the company. Arora had joined Zomato from McDonald’s where he worked as the senior marketing director of menu management in the company’s corporate communication team for over 4 years. Other developments at Zomato: - Earlier this month, Zomato raised $60 million in a round of funding from Temasek and existing investor Vy Capital. The platform said it would use the funds to invest in its new businesses such as online ordering, table reservations, point of sales, and the whitelabel platform. - Again this month, Zomato started offering a whitelabel platform to help restaurants create…
