Myntra has appointed Dipanjan Basu as its chief financial officer. Basu will join the company from 17th October and look at the company’s finance division. Prior to this, Basu worked as the VP of finance and HR at Wipro Digital for 1.5 years, lead of FP&A (Financial planning and analysis) and corporate finance for 5 years and business head of finance for 5 months, all at Wipro. He’s also worked with Quatrro as AVP and senior manager of finance at Wipro for 8 years collectively. Myntra recently hired Manpreet Ratia to head HR and new initiatives. In March, Flipkart invested Rs 338 crore (~$50.44 million) in Myntra. The company is currently targeting operating profitability by March next year, with plans to increase sales of higher-priced products and charging for certain deliveries. Myntra relaunched its desktop website in June, a little over a year after it shut it down in May last year. The company expects a 15-20% jump in sales in the current financial year. Financials For the year ended 31 March 2015, Myntra’s reported revenues of Rs 758 crore, up 77%, from Rs 427.26 crore last year, according to registrar of companies data. Losses, however, almost tripled to Rs.1,126.60 crore in fiscal 2015 from Rs.386.10 crore the previous year. Myntra’s acquisitions: - In July, Myntra acqui-hired content aggregation startup Cubeit for an undisclosed amount. Executives from Cubeit joined Myntra’s technology team. This was Myntra’s fourth acquisition. - It had previously bought mobile application development platform Native5 which offered a…
