3 senior executives, a bureaucrat in race for Facebook India top job

BENGALURU: Social networking giant Facebook is in the final stages of finalising a new head for its India operations. The company’s vice-president for global marketing solutions David Fischer is in the country interviewing candidates from the shortlist. The role, however, doesn’t include responsibilities for WhatsApp and Instagram.



With 217 million monthly active users in India, Facebook is looking for a managing director at the vice-president level. The latter is a first for India operations, signalling the importance of the market globally for Facebook. The two previous MDs for India and South Asia — Umang Bedi and Kirthiga Reddy — were not accorded the VP title. The revised annual compensation at $2 million (Rs 13.5 crore) and stock options has attracted many contenders for the India gig.



Sources told media that some of the candidates who have made the shortlist include Star India MD Sanjay Gupta, Tata Sky MD Harit Nagpal, Hotstar CEO Ajit Mohan and former Karnataka IT secretary Srivatsa Krishna, among others.