Myntra ropes in Gunjan Soni as Chief Marketing Officer

App-only fashion retailer Myntra, a part of ecommerce major Flipkart has appointed Gunjan Soni as Chief Marketing Officer and Head, international brands business. Soni is expected to take on the responsibility from the beginning of December.

Prior to Myntra, Soni worked as executive vice-president for strategy at Star India, on initiatives in content, sports and digital domains. Before that he was partner at consulting firm McKinsey & Co, where he worked across consumer sectors and geographies.

Earlier buzz was that Chief operating officer Ganesh Subramanian, who is setting up a consumer technology start-up and human resources head Pooja Gupta of app-only fashion retailer Myntra have put in their papers. Gupta would continue to be with the company as an advisor. On the other hand, the company is said to be in talks with several top executives from the global firms. The company wants to rope in these executives to form a board of advisors as it looks to grow tenfold to become a five-billion dollars (around Rs 32,000 crores) entity in the next four years.