{"id":1015094,"date":"2026-06-17T09:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015094"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:44:08","slug":"hari-menon-steps-down-as-bigbasket-ceo-amazon-veteran-amit-nanda-takes-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/17\/hari-menon-steps-down-as-bigbasket-ceo-amazon-veteran-amit-nanda-takes-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Hari Menon steps down as BigBasket CEO, Amazon veteran Amit Nanda takes charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BigBasket co-founder Hari Menon has stepped down as chief executive officer of the online grocery platform, the company announced on June 16, ending a nearly 15-year stint at the helm. Tata Digital-backed BigBasket has appointed Amit Nanda, formerly director of seller partner services at Amazon India, as the new CEO. Menon will continue to serve on the company&#8217;s board along with co-founder Vipul Parekh. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving built BigBasket from its inception to its current position as one of India&#8217;s most trusted consumer platforms, I am delighted to welcome Amit as CEO. His deep understanding of consumers, strong track record of building and scaling businesses, and extensive experience across e-commerce and consumer sectors make him uniquely positioned to lead BigBasket for its journey ahead,\u201d Menon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BigBasket co-founder Hari Menon has stepped down as chief executive officer of the online grocery platform, the company announced on June 16, ending a nearly 15-year stint at the helm. Tata Digital-backed BigBasket has appointed Amit Nanda, formerly director of seller partner services at Amazon India, as the new CEO. Menon will continue to serve on the company&#8217;s board along with co-founder Vipul Parekh. \u201cHaving built BigBasket from its inception to its current position as one of India&#8217;s most trusted consumer platforms, I am delighted to welcome Amit as CEO. His deep understanding of consumers, strong track record of building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015132,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015094\/revisions\/1015132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}