Maya Hari joins MSN India as head, consumer marketing

Hari will handle the marketing and PR activities of MSN India’s consumer products, including the MSN portal, Windows Live Hotmail, MSN Messenger and Live Spaces

After a year at Google India, Maya Hari has moved to MSN India as consumer marketing head. She will report to the company’s country manager, Jaspreet Bindra.

Hari says, “I am responsible for the marketing and PR activities of all consumer products, including the MSN portal, MSN mobile, Windows Live Hotmail, MSN Messenger and the blogging platform, Live Spaces.”

Maya Hari

Hari started her career in 2000 as a strategic marketing analyst with Schlumberger (US), a semiconductor solution provider. In 2001, she moved to Cisco Systems (US) as sales and marketing manager. At Cisco, she was involved in competitive analysis, management of sales deals and support to Cisco clients such as Nokia and Electronic Arts.

In 2005, she quit Cisco to enrol herself in an MBA course at INSEAD (at Fontainebleau, France). She moved to India in 2006 and joined Google as senior marketing manager, India and South Asia. At Google, she was responsible for promoting Google advertising products among companies, marketing the Google brand and handling B2B deals.

Hari has an engineering background and graduated from the Utah State University in the US in 1999.

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