Flipkart GC Rajinder Sharma leaves after 10 months for destination unknown (this week)

Sharma leaves Flipkart
Sharma leaves Flipkart

Flipkart group general counsel (GC) Rajinder Sharma has left the company after less than a year there, reported the Economic Times.

He told the paper that his next move was a “work in progress” that would not be finalised until next week, adding: “The going has been good and Flipkart legal team won an international award as second best in Asia Pacific, adjudged by a jury of Global GCS ”

Sharma had joined Flipkart from Samsung in September 2015, as first reported by us and Mint.

He was previously director and general counsel for the South and West Asia regional headquarters of Samsung, in Gurgaon, after three years at EI DuPont India Pvt Ltd as its director and general counsel South Asia between August 2011 and August 2014.

Between 2006 and 2011 he was also group general counsel at the Reliance ADAG Group, Emaar MGF India and the JSW Group, and between and November 2006 he had worked in the legal departments of Tata Steel, Bharti Airtel and The Coca-Cola Company.

Comments

... 5 Jul 2016, 13:26
+10 -1
Oops! He did it again! 5 companies in 6 years! Some record...
Faker 5 Jul 2016, 17:38
+7 -0
Next up is big ass IT company, where he will last until the close of this financial year.
2nd GC exit from Flipk 6 Jul 2016, 04:25
+1 -0
Didn't his predecessor also leave abruptly? 2 head legal exits in a 18 month window is troubling.
Firangi Paani 6 Jul 2016, 05:07
+2 -0
he appears to be on a world tour
ZRS 6 Jul 2016, 06:07
+1 -0
I accept your comment, Firangi Paani ... but look at it this way, he is wooed/ called by one or other large Company ... even with this average tenure being very small for last many years ... so, where is the Employer risk assessment?
Bono De 6 Jul 2016, 17:33
+5 -0
Poaching is practically unheard of between companies in diverse industries. This guy has jumped from beverages to telecom to steel to manufacturing to electronics to e-commerce and to God knows where. [...]
In House Counsel 7 Jul 2016, 08:51
+2 -0
And there's a reason (or two) for why he jumps industries so frequently...
ZRS 7 Jul 2016, 12:24
+0 -0
Guys ... again... he may always have reasons to change industries ... my question remains unanswered - what do these big companies look at when they hire him? Almost all his stints have been at very big names ..
Bono De 7 Jul 2016, 13:42
+0 -0
And why do they let go of him so soon as well . . .
Firangi Paani 8 Jul 2016, 06:12
+1 -0
This is the skill you and I have to develop, else we will keep on languishing like this forever!