Former Amazon, Google, Microsoft executives on Flipkart payroll

BENGALURU, INDIA: In a trend highlighting the growing eagerness of senior executives from established corporates joining start-up companies, former Amazon, Google, Microsoft executives have joined e-commerce company Flipkart.

Dan Rawson of Amazon has joined as Head, Customer Logistics and Supply Chain Ecosystems, Ravi Byakod of Google has come in as Director, Engineering - Accounting and Anand Lakshminarayanan of Microsoft is Head, Product Management for Digital Goods and Services.

A former Captain in the US Marines, Rawson was General Manager of Fulfillment in North America. In a prepared note, Flipkart said that at Amazon, Rawson was responsible for managing all aspects of an operation that annually moves tens of billions of dollars' worth of goods from third-party sellers to Amazon customers.

At Flipkart, he will oversee all aspects of customer delivery solutions, leading product business and operations teams to expand delivery while maintaining a consistently excellent experience for consumers.

As Director of Engineering - Accounting, Ravi Byakod will provide an accurate picture of the company's finances, the company said.

Byakod spent more than nine years working for Google before joining Flipkart. Most recently, he served as Head of Engineering for Google for its Work's Technology and Solutions team, developing data warehouses, customer relationship management programs and partner engineering solutions out of its headquarters in California.

Lakshminarayanan will lead the expansion of the company's digital product offerings. Before joining Flipkart, he spent a year working for Microsoft in Hyderabad, as Principal Group Program Manager of Applications and Services, leading the product team responsible for MSN Sports, MSN Money and MSN Health & Fitness for mobile devices and the Web worldwide.

Prior to that, he served as a Group Product Manager at eBay in Seattle, Washington.