Realty portal Housing.com has appointed Nikhil Rungta as its chief marketing officer, reports the ET. Prior to Housing, Rungta was the senior vice president of marketing at Reliance JIO and the CMO for Google India, where he led the position for four years. Overall, Rungta has over 20 years of experience in the marketing field and has worked in leadership roles at Yatra and Yebhi, where he headed the marketing for the companies. Other than this, he also worked at McCann Erickson, Dhar & Hoon Advertising, Shaw Wallace & Company and Mayfair Electrical Industries. Other appointments : Last month, Housing appointed Nandini Mehta as general counsel where she would be responsible for defining the company’s legal framework. The same month, it also appointed Mani Rangarajan as its chief financial officer. In his new role Rangarajan will be responsible for financial strategy and planning. Housing also appointed Keerthi Kiran as the vice president of its new real estate projects division. Kiran was with Housing for nearly 2 years before being promoted to this role. Note that in August, Housing laid off over 160 employees citing that it needed to focus on its core products. However, MediaNama had received an anonymous tip-off at the time, that the number of staff cuts could be as high as 1,100 and that most of the people affected were the company’s ground and operational staff. The tip-off added that most of the ground and operational staff were hired from telecom and FMCG companies with nearly 50-60% pay hikes. Following the tumultuous…
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