Binny Bansal, a 6 ft tall handsome guy from
Chandigarh, is the Group CEO of India’s largest commercial website, Flipkart.
In a recent reorganization, he was promoted as the Group CEO and Kalyan
Krishnamurthy was made CEO of Flipkart. Now, apart from Flipkart, Binny Bansal
will also be responsible for managing Myntra and PhonePe.
Binny along with Sachin Bansal had started Flipkart
in 2007. Both have the same surname – Bansal - and both
belong to Chandigarh, but they are not related. In fact, both of them had
studied in the same batch, same college, same department – B. Tech, Computer
Science from IIT – Delhi. Before co-founding Flipkart, Binny and Sachin had
worked together with Amazon in the USA.
Salary of Binny Bansal
Binny and Sachin both holds 20 % of shares of
Flipkart. Rest is in the hands of investors and venture capitalist firms.
Flipkart is not a listed company.
Since, it is not listed in any share market, there
is no requirement for the company to disclose about the exact amount it gives
to the CEO and other executives in the form of salary and perks.
However, there are grapevines going on in the tech
circle of Bangalore about the salary of Binny Bansal.
As per one estimate, he is currently getting Rs.
5 Crore per annum as salary from the company he had co-founded. It
should also be noted here that Sachin Bansal, the former CEO, is still getting
little more than what Binny has been offered by the board.
It means, Binny is among the top salary earner of
India. He is definitely lags behind likes of Navin Jindal who gets. around Rs.
73 Crores.
It should also be mentioned here that apart from
salary, Binny is also getting rich as he is holding 10 % of the share of the
company. As per current estimates, he is valued at $1 billion and along with
Sachin he is in the coveted list of Indian billionaires. It should be noted
that he is a self-made billionaire and is only 33 year old.
Following is the brief
wiki and biography of Binny Bansal:
Real Name: Binny Bansal
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Nick Name: Binny
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Date of Birth: 5th August, 1981
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Age: 36 Years
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Father: A retired Chief Manager of a Public Sector Bank.
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Mother: A retired Government employee. Binny Bansal has no sibling. He is the
only child of his parents.
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Educational Qualification: After completing schooling from Chandigarh, Binny cracked IIT JEE and
took admission in IIT Delhi from where he has completed B. Tech. with Computer
Science.
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Religion: Hinduism
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Caste: Bania
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Birth Place: Chandigarh
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Awards and Recognition: Binny was recently awarded Asian of the Year by The Strait Times.
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Net Asset:
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Relationship Status: Binny Bansal is married to Trisha Bansal. The couple are living in
Bangalore. They were in news recently for buying one of the costliest
residential properties of Bengaluru.
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