LinkedIn’s India head Ashutosh Gupta steps down

Ashutosh Gupta, Nation Supervisor for India & APAC Head of On-line Gross sales for LinkedIn Advertising and marketing Options, has determined to depart the corporate on the finish of April to take a profession break earlier than taking up new roles.

Gupta has been working with LinkedIn for 11 years, since taking up the nation supervisor position at LinkedIn India in 2019. Throughout Gupta’s management tenure in India, some key milestones achieved embrace the launch of the Hindi language to assist members, rising the member base in India to cross 100 million, and lots of extra initiatives.

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“We thank Ashutosh for his decade of devoted service and need him all the most effective for the long run. As we proceed to develop and scale our enterprise on this strategic market, our APAC and India management groups will lean in as we finalise the appointment of a brand new nation supervisor for India,” the press be aware said.

Gupta has twenty years of tech expertise with stints in Google, Cognizant and Infosys. Gupta had joined Linkedin in 2013 to steer LinkedIn’s Advertising and marketing Options (LMS) enterprise in India, after which moved to Singapore in 2016 to construct LMS’ On-line Gross sales Organisation (OSO) for Asia Pacific and China.

LinkedIn appointed Gupta as nation supervisor for India, efficient September 2, 2019. At the moment LinkedIn had greater than 630 million members globally and over 57 million customers in India. Now LinkedIn has over 115 million customers in India.