India, April 15 -- Flipkart's outgoing chief product and technology officer (CPTO) Jeyandran Venugopal will likely join Reliance Retail Ventures as chief executive.

Venugopal resigned from Flipkart in February citing personal reasons.

An ET report said that Venugopal is expected to spearhead the consumer-facing arm of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL).

Inc42 has reached out to Venugopal and Reliance Retail for comments on the development. The story will be updated based on the responses.

As per his LinkedIn profile, Venugopal worked with the Walmart-owned ecommerce giant for nearly six years. He started as senior vice president of product and engineering wing and oversaw verticals like consumer shopping experience, design and user researc...