Amazon India rival Flipkart has appointed former senior Meta government Dan Neary to its board of administrators because the Walmart-controlled ecommerce firm steps up efforts for a long-planned public itemizing.

Neary left Meta earlier this yr after greater than a decade of main the corporate’s progress throughout the Asia Pacific area. He oversaw Meta’s enlargement throughout Australia, better China, Southeast Asia and a number of other different markets.

His appointment comes at an important second for India’s largest non-public web firm. Flipkart is making ready for a home inventory market debut after its board accredited a transfer to shift its domicile from Singapore to India. The Indian entity, Flipkart Web, runs the corporate’s market enterprise, whereas different operations resembling funds, logistics and Myntra sit in separate items.

Talking on his appointment, Dan Neary, mentioned, “I’m really excited to affix the board of Flipkart, an organization that continues to redefine the way forward for commerce in India. Flipkart’s scale, innovation mindset, and expertise management are unmatched, however what stands out most is the power and integrity of its management group. The corporate’s deep dedication to ethics, compliance, and accountable progress displays a long-term imaginative and prescient I strongly align with. I stay up for supporting Flipkart because it continues its subsequent section of progress and affect.”

Kalyan Krishnamurthy, Chief Government Officer and Member of the Board, Flipkart Group, mentioned, “We’re delighted to welcome Dan to the Flipkart Board. His international expertise throughout expertise, digital commerce, and platform scale will likely be invaluable as we form the subsequent section of Flipkart’s journey. With AI reworking each layer of retail, from buyer expertise to produce chain and vendor empowerment, Dan’s perspective and management will assist speed up our innovation agenda. We stay up for partnering with him as we proceed constructing responsibly, with long-term worth, belief, and affect.”

On the board, Neary joins Kathryn McLay, president and CEO of Walmart Worldwide, Suresh Kumar, international CTO at Walmart, and Dan Bartlett, government vp for company affairs at Walmart.

Different board members embrace former HDFC CEO Keki Mistry, former SoftBank Funding Advisers managing companion Lydia Jett, Tencent chief technique officer James Mitchell, former Deloitte Singapore chairman Chaly Mah, and Krishnamurthy.

Flipkart Group entities narrowed losses in FY25 by way of expense cuts, though general on-line retail progress remained muted. Flipkart Web reported income of Rs 20,493 crore in 2024 to 2025, up 14 % from the earlier yr, whereas internet losses fell 37 % to Rs 1,494 crore.