Nitin Seth is an Indian tech entrepreneur and author who was the COO of

Flipkart Flipkart Private Limited is an Indian e-commerce company, headquartered in Bengaluru, and incorporated in Singapore as a private limited company. The company initially focused on online book sales before expanding into other product categories ...

. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Incedo, a US-based digital transformation services and platforms provider. An alumnus of the

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, he has been Managing Director of

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in India. He served as Chairperson of

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's GCC Council and was the Chairperson of the

Regional Council (NRC) in

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, India. He is the co-founder of

Plaksha University Plaksha University is a not-for-profit private research university located in Mohali, Punjab, India. It is set up by a group of over 60 business leaders and technology entrepreneurs with a mission to create a new model of higher education that ...

, a private science and technology university based in

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, India.

Education

He graduated from the

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with a

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degree. He holds an MBA from the

Career

He started his career with

McKinsey and Company McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm founded in 1926 by University of Chicago professor James O. McKinsey, that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. McKinsey is the oldest and ...

, where he worked for 14 years. He was serving as the director of

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's Global Knowledge Centre in India (McKC) when he left the company. Nitin Seth joined

as the chief people officer in February 2016, appointed by its co-founder

Binny Bansal Binny Bansal (born 1982/1983) is an Indian billionaire Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (no relation) and served as the chief operating officer until 11 January 2016 and was then p ...

. In less than 6 months, he was promoted to Chief Administrative Officer. Later, in January 2017, he was made Chief Operations Officer of the company when Kalyan Krishnamurthy took over as

CEO from co-founder

, who took over as group CEO. During his tenure as the COO of

, he also assumed control of

's in-house logistics arm

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. In May 2017, Seth resigned from the company, citing personal reasons, as reported by ''

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''. Later, in July 2017, he served a legal notice to Flipkart, calling "his removal was illegal". Before joining Flipkart, Nitin Seth worked as the managing director and Country Head of

for 6 years, overseeing its offshore operations across India and

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. In October 2017, Seth was appointed as CEO of Incedo Inc., a San Francisco-based engineering services company.

NASSCOM

Nitin chaired the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) Regional Council for

and helped create the IT policy for the

. He has championed the development of the start-up ecosystem, creating a forward-looking IT Policy for the state and infrastructure improvements in

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. He set up and served as the chairman of the

forum for Global In-house Centers (GICs) for

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and has led the industry-wide initiative to develop the vision and strategic roadmap for GICs. He was the Chairperson of the National GIC Council and was part of the

Executive Council. He was the founding member of the

GCC council.

Published work

In 2021, Nitin authored a book titled, ''Winning in the Digital Age'', which was published by

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. It reached the #18

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Best Seller, as of July 2021. The book was translated in Hindi by Manjul Publication with the title ‘Digital Yug Mein Safalta’. A new edition of the book was released in 2023. The book won a silver medal at the Axiom Business Book Awards 2022 in the Business Technology category, a Gold Stevie at the International Business Awards 2022 in Best Business Book category, a silver Stevie at the American Business Awards 2022 in the Best Business Book category. Also, the book won the 2022 CK Prahalad Best Business Book Awards at the Bangalore Business Literature Festival. In 2024, Nitin authored his second book titled, ''Mastering The Data Paradox'', which was published by

. It reached the #2

Best Seller, as of March 2024.

Recognitions

In 2021, Nitin was listed as one of the 100 Most Inspiring People in the Life Sciences Industry by PharmaVoice. In 2022, the International Business Awards presented Nitin with bronze Stevie for Executive of the Year and Thought Leader of the Year. Globee Business Excellence Awards awarded Nitin with a Gold Globee in 2022 as Executive of the Year. Best in Biz International recognized Nitin as the Executive of the Year in the Large Companies Category. The Globee CEO World Awards awarded Nitin as Transformation Leader of the Year. In 2023, the International Business Awards recognized Nitin as Executive of the Year in Computer Services category with a Gold Stevie. Globee Business Excellence Awards awarded Nitin with a Gold Globee in 2023 as Executive of the Year. In 2024, American Business Awards awarded Nitin with a Gold Stevie as the Thought Leader of the Year.

References

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