Quikr appoints new Head for its real estate vertical
Quikr Homes
Industry entrepreneur Manish Sinha to lead the real estate
business
Quikr,
India’s No. 1 cross category classifieds business, today announced the
appointment of Manish Sinha as Head of Quikr Homes, its real estate
vertical. As the Head of Quikr Homes, Manish will be responsible for
growing Quikr's consumer real estate business across India, and leading
strategy and growth plans for the rest of its real estate categories.
Commenting
on his appointment, Pranay Chulet, Founder & CEO of Quikr said, “Over the last few years, we have seen tremendous organic
growth in our real estate business due to the large amount of consumer demand
our platform attracts. Launching a dedicated real estate platform for our users
was the next logical step for us. Manish’s arrival is well timed with our
growth strategy of going deeper in categories where we already have a
leadership position and we are delighted to have him on our team. We are
confident that he will lead Quikr Homes to new heights of success.”
 |
| Manish Kumar Sinha, Head , Quikr Homes |
Commenting
on the occasion, Manish Sinha said, “Quikr
is one of India’s biggest digital brands and I am delighted to be a part of
this amazing growth story. We have an exciting journey ahead as we go
deeper in real estate. We already have a leadership position and a very high
level of transaction flow in the category, I look forward to working with the
rest of the Quikr team to further support this transaction flow by offering our
users a richer real estate experience.”
A
graduate of IIT-Delhi, with an MBA from IIM-Calcutta, Manish has over 15 years
of experience across management consulting and entrepreneurship. With the goal
of building customer focused and technology leveraged businesses, he founded
online real estate venture Favista in 2011 and also launched game and app
creator Rovolt. Prior to that, he managed a business unit at WNS, a publicly
listed company, and was with Capital One in the US. Manish spent the first few
years of his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.
About Quikr
Quikr is India’s leading cross-category classifieds platform that is used by over 30 million unique users a month. It is present in 1000 cities in India and operates in over 10 categories that include mobile phones, household goods, cars, real estate, jobs, services and education. Quikr operates across desktop, laptop and mobile phones, and allows consumers as well as small businesses to sell, buy, rent and find things across its multiple categories with great ease. Quikr’sinvestors include Warburg Pincus, Kinnevik, Tiger Global Management, Matrix Partners India, Norwest Venture Partners, Nokia Growth Partners, Steadview Capital, Omidyar Network, EbayInc.
Visit www.quikr.com for
more details.
For further details about the announcement, please
contact:
Aahna Gandhi / Elita Sequeira
+91 9833434389 / +91 9819478708
For Media
Contact
Aahna Gandhi
C Wing, 215 Atrium Business Park,
Office No 321, 3rd Floor,
Andheri East, Chakala,
Mumbai: 400 059
INDIA
Tel: +91.22. 30579114/115
Mobile: (+91). 9833434389
555 Eighth Avenue
Suite 1002
New York, New York 10018
U.S.A
Tel: (212).239.8594
Fax: (212).239.8596
No comments:
Post a Comment