Albinder Dhindsa

Born in Patiala, Punjab, Albinder Dhindsa is an engineering graduate of IIT Delhi. He began his career as a transportation analyst at URS Corporation and later became a senior associate at Cambridge Systematics, working on logistics and supply chain systems. He then earned an MBA at Columbia Business School, worked briefly at UBS Investment Bank, and joined Zomato as head of international operations before leaving to co-found Grofers in 2013.

Albinder Singh Dhindsa is the co-founder of Blinkit and, since February 1, 2026, Group CEO of its parent company Eternal Ltd, which also owns Zomato, District and Hyperpure. He co-founded Grofers in Gurugram in 2013 with Saurabh Kumar and led it as CEO through a fast, heavily funded expansion, a painful 2016 cost reset and years of competition with BigBasket. In 2021 he rebuilt the company around dark stores and very fast delivery under the Blinkit name, then agreed its 2022 sale to Zomato for ~$516 million (₹4,447 crore) in stock. Under Zomato ownership he grew Blinkit from 526 stores in March 2024 to 2,243 by March 2026, moved it to an inventory-led model in September 2025 and took it to its first positive adjusted EBITDA in the December 2025 quarter. Deepinder Goyal later said he had twice asked Dhindsa to step down after the acquisition; instead, Dhindsa succeeded Goyal as Group CEO. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).