Manish Maheshwari will be joining as chief executive officer of Web 18. He has recently resigned from his duties and responsibilities as head of seller marketplace and ecosystem at Flipkart.
In his new role, Maheshwari will head Network18’s digital and e-commerce assets which include portals like Moneycontrol, Ibnlive, Firstpost besides television and online shopping company HomeShop18 and BookMyShow, where it holds around a 40 per cent stake.
Maheshwari’s immediate priorities will be to drive content, monetisation, new business, inorganic growth, and product portfolio management.
Maheshwari had played an important role in the expanding Flipkart’s marketplace nearly ten-fold from 10,000 sellers in February 2015 to over 1,00,000 sellers by February 2016.
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