Yahoo! India & SE Asia MD Arun Tadanki quits

Tadanki joined Yahoo! India as MD in May 2009. In December 2011, he was elevated to take on additional responsibility to lead Yahoo! Southeast Asia region covering Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam

BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | February 25, 2013

Arun Tadanki

Arun Tadanki, Managing Director, India & Southeast Asia, has announced his decision to leave Yahoo! Tadanki will remain with Yahoo till June 2013 and will play an active role to support the company during the transition period.

Tadanki joined Yahoo! India as MD in May 2009. In December 2011, he was elevated to take on additional responsibility to lead Yahoo! Southeast Asia region covering Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam. Prior to Yahoo!, Tadanki was President (Asia Pacific & Middle East) at Monster.com, where he worked for seven years.

A Yahoo! spokesperson said, “Under Arun's leadership, Yahoo! India has seen impressive growth both in terms of users and advertising outpacing the market. During the last three years, Arun also secured strong partnerships that drove six-fold growth of Yahoo! mobile users in India.”

Tadanki led the formation of editorial operations, delivering 15-fold traffic growth of Yahoo! India content properties and establishing Yahoo! India as a leading destination for content. He played a key role in localising the Yahoo! experience with extensive local content partnerships across categories such as cricket, Bollywood, entertainment & news in English and six local languages.

“We want to thank Arun for his leadership in driving the growth of Yahoo! India over the last three years and for successfully integrating India and Southeast Asia regions during 2012. We wish him the very best in his future,” the Yahoo spokeperson added.

Commenting on his decision to quit, Tadanki said, "I truly enjoyed my stay at Yahoo! and I wish Yahoo! the very best in future. It was an enriching experience and I will really miss the wonderful team of talented professionals at Yahoo!”

He added, "Having worked for 11 years in CEO roles for APAC/Emerging Markets regions at multinational Internet companies, I am looking forward to playing a very different role within the Internet ecosystem, beyond our region.”

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