Linkedln Appoints Akshay Kothari As Country Manager India

06 January ,New Delhi

Professional networking site, LinkedIn today appointed Akshay Kothari as Country Manager for India, with immediate effect. Kothari replaces Nishant Rao, who quit the company in October last year to join cloud-based customer support software firm Freshdesk as its Chief Operating Officer.

Kothari will report to Olivier Legrand, LinkedIn’s Managing Director for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, and join the company’s APAC senior management team, the company said in a statement. India has one of the largest userbase for LinkedIn, which has more than 400 million members globally.

He joined LinkedIn in 2013 when Pulse, the company he co-founded and was CEO for almost 3 years, was acquired by LinkedIn. Since then, based out of LinkedIn’s global headquarters in Mountain View, California, he has led several major product and content initiatives, including Pulse.

“This new role also brings me back ‘full-circle’ to India, a high-growth market where there are opportunities abound to create even more value for our members and clients Kothari said. India continues to be a strategic market for LinkedIn. While we have come a long way over the past six years in the country, we still have a long runway of opportunities,” Legrand said.