Xiaomi India today announced the appointment of Muralikrishnan B as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO). He was India Head of eBay.in in 2011 and later he joined Jabong as COO, which Xiaomi India Head and VP, Manu Kumar Jain co-founded in 2012. Before joining Xiaomi, Muralikrishnan was Senior Vice President of Myntra.
Xiaomi has been rapidly expanding in India, especially in the offline segment in terms of partnered stores as well as its own Mi Home stores. Xiaomi , earlier this year announced that it aims to reach 100 Mi Home Stores in 2018 itself.
Last month it opened 1000th authorized service center in the country in Hyderabad, and said that it has over 6000 workforce contributing to the service network.