Ashutosh Gupta To Become New Country Manager Of LinkedIn In India

On July 08, the employment-oriented service LinkedIn announced that it has hired Ashutosh Gupta as its new country manager in India. The agreement will take effects from September 02 of this year.

As such, Gupta will replace Mahesh Narayanan who worked as a country manager of LinkedIn in India within 6 months, from January to June 2019.

The new country manager started to work for the social networking platform in 2013 and took the leadership position of the LinkedIn’s Marketing Solutions (or LMS) business in the Indian market. Until 2016, he came to Singapore and began to set up Online Sales Organisation (or OSO) of LMS for China and Asia Pacific.

In addition, Gupta has teamed up with many renowned organisations in the world, such as Google, Infosys, Cognizant, and more.

According to Ashutosh Gupta, India has been a potential market of LinkedIn, and brought lots of promising opportunities for the company to seek for more customers and members.

He further said,

LinkedIn has attracted over 63 crore members across the world and more than 570 lakh Indian users.

Gupta will directly report to the managing director of LinkedIn at the Asia Pacific region, Olivier Legrand. Besides, he will work with APAC senior management team of the company.

Accordingly, he will soon come back to India to begin his new duties. Gupta doesn’t just undertake the new position as a country manager but he also keeps working as a leader of the LMS Online Sales Organisation for China and APAC.