Ecom Express appoints Sharma as Head-Country Operations

Leading logistics solutions provider Ecom Express Pvt Ltd has appointed Dilip K Sharma as its Senior Vice-President and Head-Country Operations.

Prior to this, Sharma was heading Flipkart’s third party logistics operations for the Fulfilment Service Ecosystem.

Sharma will closely work with the leadership team in spearheading operations with technology-led solutions and validation tools thereby ensuring productivities and efficiencies across the value chain, the company said in a statement.

Ecom Express, in which PE firm Warburg Pincus holds a major stake, has been aggressively strengthening its team in the last one year even as it gets ready for its next phase of growth.

The company has appointed Girish Lakshman, former Vice President of Worldwide Strategy and Technology for Amazon.com, and Rajiv Kapoor, Chief People Officer at Fortis Healthcare, as independent non-executive directors on its board early this year.

T A Krishnan, Chief Executive Officer, Ecom Express, said, “Dilip brings tremendous experience and dynamism along with years of rich industry experience. We are certain that his contribution to the Ecom Express growth narrative will be significant and that he will be a perfect synergistic match for our existing team. As we continue to grow as an organisation and to support our customers, his contribution will be pivotal to our sustained growth.”

Sharma has also worked at various leading logistics companies such as Startrek Logistics (Spoton) and TNT India Pvt. Ltd. He is a Science graduate from Kolkata University and holds a Management Degree in Marketing.

Commenting on his appointment, Dilip K Sharma said, “I am glad to be a part of this enthusiastic and diligent team at Ecom Express. I hope to leverage my learnings from my experience on execution of key operating strategies to transform the business into a high performance organisation.”

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