Arun Tadanki bids adieu to Yahoo!

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

A Yahoo! spokesperson said, “Under Arun’s leadership, Yahoo! India has seen impressive growth both in terms of users & advertising, outpacing the market.

During the last 3 years, Arun also secured strong partnerships that drove 6-fold growth of Yahoo! mobile users in India.

He led the formation of editorial operation, 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 localizing Yahoo! experience with extensive local content partnerships across categories such as Cricket, Bollywood, Entertainment & News, in English & six local languages.

We want to thank Arun for his leadership in driving the growth of Yahoo! India over the last 3 years and for successfully integrating India and Southeast Asia regions during 2012.  We wish him the very best in his future”.

Commenting on his decision, Arun 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!”

Adding further, "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.”

Arun Tadanki joined Yahoo! India as Managing Director in May 2009. In Dec 2011, Arun was elevated to take on additional responsibility to lead Yahoo! Southeast Asia region covering Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam. Prior to Yahoo!, Arun was President (Asia Pacific & Middle East) at Monster.com, where he worked for 7 years.