Realty portal Housing.com has appointed Mani Rangarajan as chief financial officer (CFO) to strengthen its senior management team. Mr Rangarajan has held executive level roles in companies such as Citigroup and Yahoo. He has also been involved with several start-ups in India in advisory roles. Housing.com, which was founded in 2012, has made some major appointments at senior level after its board on July 1 this year sacked co-founder and then CEO Rahul Yadav.

Rishabh Gupta was appointed as interim CEO in July, while Jason Kothari was appointed as chief business officer in August to drive the company’s growth in India. In September, Housing.com appointed Keerthi Kiran as vice president-new real estate projects.

Mr Rangarajan holds an MBA degree from the Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, a PGDM from IIM Kolkata and is also a Cost & Works Accountant. With presence in 50 cities and employing about 2,500 people, Housing.com provides independently verified listings of homes. It has raised over $100 million from investors, including Softbank.