{"id":987072,"date":"2026-01-22T08:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987072"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:10:59","slug":"deepinder-goyal-exits-eternal-ceo-role-for-high-risk-projects-albinder-dhindsa-named-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/22\/deepinder-goyal-exits-eternal-ceo-role-for-high-risk-projects-albinder-dhindsa-named-successor\/","title":{"rendered":"Deepinder Goyal exits Eternal CEO role for \u2018high-risk\u2019 projects, Albinder Dhindsa named successor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal on Wednesday announced that he will step away from his role as group chief executive officer of Eternal, the parent company of Zomato and Blinkit, and, subject to shareholder approval, remain on the board as vice-chairman. Blinkit CEO Albinder Singh Dhindsa will take over as Eternal\u2019s new group CEO. <\/p>\n<p>In a letter to shareholders posted on X, Goyal said the transition would allow the company to remain \u201csharply focused and disciplined\u201d while giving him the space to pursue higher-risk ideas that fall outside Eternal\u2019s strategic scope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal on Wednesday announced that he will step away from his role as group chief executive officer of Eternal, the parent company of Zomato and Blinkit, and, subject to shareholder approval, remain on the board as vice-chairman. Blinkit CEO Albinder Singh Dhindsa will take over as Eternal\u2019s new group CEO. In a letter to shareholders posted on X, Goyal said the transition would allow the company to remain \u201csharply focused and disciplined\u201d while giving him the space to pursue higher-risk ideas that fall outside Eternal\u2019s strategic scope.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987072","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=987072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}