Meta India head Ajit Mohan departs to affix Snap • TechCrunch

Ajit Mohan, the top of Meta in India, has left the agency and joined rival Snap, in line with sources accustomed to the matter. At Snap, Mohan will function the President of the APAC enterprise, two sources mentioned.

Mohan joined Meta, referred to as Fb then, in January 2019 as a VP and MD of the India enterprise. Throughout his keep on the agency, Fb’s household of apps together with Instagram and WhatsApp added over 200 million customers in India and made a collection of bold investments within the nation, together with slicing a $5.7 billion test to Indian telecom large Jio Platforms and ramped up the commerce engine of WhatsApp.

A McKinsey alum, Mohan rose to the stardom at Star, the place he performed an instrumental position in getting the leisure conglomerate to launch a streaming service, referred to as Hotstar.

Together with Uday Shankar, Mohan additionally performed a key half within the content material technique of Hotstar, banking on native films and exhibits and sports activities streaming. The well timed wager on on-line streaming and cricket helped Hotstar develop into a crown jewel in Disney’s portfolio after the Fox acquisition.

“Ajit has determined to step down from his position at Meta to pursue one other alternative exterior of the corporate,” Nicola Mendelsohn, Vice President of World Enterprise Group at Meta, mentioned in an announcement.

“During the last 4 years, he has performed an essential position in shaping and scaling our India operations to allow them to serve many hundreds of thousands of Indian companies, companions and folks. We stay deeply dedicated to India and have a powerful management group in place to hold on all our work and partnerships. We’re grateful for Ajit’s management and contribution and need him the easiest for the long run.”

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