Rajan Anandan, the vice-president of Google India and South East Asia on Tuesday 2 April, quit from his position at the search engine giant. Rajan has been at the helm at Google India, and later moved to head South East Asia as well, for over eight years.
And now Sequoia Capital India has confirmed that Rajan will be joining its leadership team as one of its managing directors once his tenure at Google India comes to an end.
The venture capital firm in its official statement highlighted that Rajan will focus on developing Surge into the world’s top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the program’s founders.
The development was first reported by CNBC TV18 and Google has officially confirmed the changes taking place in one of its biggest market in the world.
Google has also stated that Rajan Anandan will be holding his post till end of April. Post that, Vikas Agnihotri, who is the Country Director, Sales will take on the responsibility in the interim for Google India, the search giant has mentioned in its statement.
Rajan has been a constant support for Google’s endeavours in the country, working closely with Google’s Next Billion Users (NBU) division, which had delivered varied India-first products like Google Tez (now called Google Pay), Bolo app for kids and Android Go among others.
We are grateful to Rajan for his huge contribution to Google over the past eight years. His entrepreneurial zeal and leadership has helped grow the overall internet ecosystem in India and Southeast Asia, and we wish him all the best in his new adventuresGoogle India on Rajan Anandan
Prior to his eight year stint at Google India, Rajan has also worked with other technology giants like Microsoft, where he was the Managing Director for over two years and Dell India before that.
Rajan is the latest Indian honcho to quit from his leadership profile, to focus on investing in startups. Flipkart’s co-founder Sachin Bansal also did something similar few months back, and he recently invested big bucks in India-based cab aggregator giant Ola.
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