Chandan Mittal, the former Swiggy General Manager Supply Chain, has joined grocery delivery service Yalla!Market as Chief Operations Officer in March 2022.

Chandan stepped in the new role with 18 years of experience with leading brands in Q-commerce, Cloud Kitchen & Quick Service Restaurant industries. Among them are Swiggy, Costa Coffee, Café Coffee Day & Mad Over Donuts.

Chandan’s last assignment was with Swiggy where he was instrumental in setting up Q-Commerce (Quick Grocery Delivery Service “InstaMart”) & Swiggy Cloud Kitchen Vertical. Core contributions at Swiggy were to build & operate a supply chain network of warehouses with a total area of 1.4 million square feet spread across 8 cities and operating & expanding a network of 80 Cloud kitchens across different locations.

In previous roles with Costa Coffee, Café Coffee Day & Mad Over Donuts Chandan has been a Regional Business Head.

In his new role, Mittal will be in charge of all service operations in Yalla!Market, including the supply chain, operational flow, launching new dark stores, and scaling business across the MENA market.

“When we started Yalla!Market in Dubai, we lacked operations management experience. The moment we met Chandan, it was a match. His talents and experience will be invaluable as we accelerate our expansion in the MENA market and plan to enter Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Chandan’s long story of leadership, coupled with his wide background in cloud kitchen systems and grocery delivery, makes him an ideal person for this position” — said CEO of Yalla!Market Leo Dovbenko.

As of June 2022 Yalla!Market delivers up to 22,000 orders per month and since 2022 the mobile app has already been downloaded 170,000 times.