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Follow UsAnandan will join the leadership team at the firm, in addition to the six current managing directors.
Rajan Anandan, VP for Google South East Asia and India has decided to move on from the role. The news was confirmed by the Google India team. He will continue in his current role till the end of April. Vikas Agnihotri, country director - Sales, will take on the responsibility in the interim for Google India.
Rajan Anandan
Anandan is joining Sequoia Capital India as a managing director. He will join the leadership team at the firm, in addition to the six current managing directors, where he will focus on developing Surge (Sequoia's rapid scale-up program for startups in India and Southeast Asia)
"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 adventures,” Scott Beaumont, president, Google Asia Pacific in a statement.
8 amazing years. 850million internet users across India and SEA. Many billions of revenue and fastest growing region in the world. Incredible team that thinks big and executes superbly. Thank you @GoogleIndia#GoogleSEA. Loved every minute.
— Rajan Anandan (@RajanAnandan) April 2, 2019
Anandan's joining Sequoia Capital India was announced on a post on the official Twitter handle of the firm. Shailendra J Singh, managing director at Sequoia Capital posted about it on LinkedIn.
We're thrilled to welcome @RajanAnandan to the leadership team @sequoia_India as investment advisor & mentor to the @_surgeahead founders. Rajan's depth of experience & expertise will be invaluable in this journey!https://t.co/jgxC8uu8HP
— Sequoia_India (@Sequoia_India) April 2, 2019
"We are thrilled to welcome to Sequoia Capital India as a Managing Director. He will join the leadership team at the firm, in addition to the six current Managing Directors, where he will focus on developing Surge (Sequoia's rapid scale-up program for startups in India and Southeast Asia) into the world’s top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the program’s founders," read Singh's LinkedIn post.
Prior to Google, Anandan has had stints at Microsoft, Dell and McKinsey & Co.
