ShopClues CXO Next 2017 – An Initiative for Today’s B-School Students prepping for the CXO Dream, awarded promising future leaders with PPIs and an opportunity for them to shadow ShopClues leadership for a week.
27th May 2017, New Delhi: ShopClues, India’s first and largest online marketplace today conducted the award ceremony of the CXO NEXT 2017 Challenge, where students from top B-Schools across the country participated and discovered the leader within. The Challenge comprised of finalising 8 business plan videos by students, chosen from over 1500 entries from across India from top MBA Schools, across business four major business areas – Operations, Category, Product and Marketing. The Winners from each area won Pre-Placement interviews at ShopClues, cool electronic gadgets, and a chance to shadow the business head for one week, gaining hands-on experience.
Winning students were from the leading B-schools. Aditi Pathak, ISB and Vershita Srivastava, IIM Raipur bagged the Winner and Runners-up titles respectively in the Marketing Domain. The winner in the Category domain, Alladi Shravya and Runners-up, Devan Goyal were from VGSoM – IIT Kharagpur and ISB respectively. Abhiroop Bhattacharya, IMI, New Delhi and Abhinav Sharma, IIM Tiruchirapalli were the winner and runners-up respectively in the Operations domain. The prizes in the Product domain were bagged by Anirban Mitra, IIM Kozhikode and Aswathy Satish, MDI Gurgaon.
Radhika Aggarwal, Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer, ShopClues, shared, “We are excited to present the CXO NEXT 2017 Challenge this year, where young students of India stand a chance to fulfil their dreams of being leaders. I look forward to working with the winning students and guiding them to use their zeal and passion to build a better e-commerce industry.”
The CXO Next 2017 event also featured panel discussions about the two most important topics defining the e-commerce landscape – “Establishing your career in eCommerce” and “Profitability in eCommerce – Myth or Reality”. The panel comprised of ShopClues’ Senior Leadership Team, which discussed the Indian market and the reality of day-to-day operations in the e-commerce industry. The panellists, Vishal Sharma, VP – Operations, Harneet Singh, VP – Marketing, Ambar Deep, AVP – Product and Nitin Kochhar, VP – Categories; lead day-to-day operations in the organization, which works with more than half a million merchants and has over 100 million visits per month.
ShopClues has built a culture of looking at the bigger picture of the industry along with constant ROI visibility making the growth hackers of today the true business leaders of tomorrow.
About ShopClues
Headquartered in Gurgaon, ShopClues was founded in 2011, as a preferred e-commerce destination for Real India – Buyers and Sellers in tier 2, tier 3, 4 cities and beyond.
With more than 100 million monthly visits, over 20 million listed products, 5,00,000 + merchants, over 7000 online brand stores, ShopClues services 30,000 pin codes across India.
Spearheaded by Sanjay Sethi & Radhika Aggarwal, ShopClues (an Indian subsidiary of Clues Network Inc., a US Corporation) was deemed a Unicorn in 2016 with the E Series Funding by Sovereign Wealth Fund GIC Pte Ltd. Other investors include Tiger Global Management LLC, Helion Venture Partners & Nexus Venture Partners.