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Pulse Co-founder Akshay Kothari Appointed Head of Linkedin India
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Pulse Co-founder Akshay Kothari Appointed Head of Linkedin India

Professional networking platform LinkedIn today appointed Akshay Kothari as Country Manager for India, with immediate effect. Kothari will report to Olivier Legrand, LinkedIn s Managing Director for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, and join the company’s APAC senior management team, LinkedIn said in a statement. He joined LinkedIn in 2013 when Pulse, the company he co-founded and was CEO for almost 3 years, was acquired by LinkedIn.Since then, based out of LinkedIn’s global headquarters in Mountain View, California, he has led several major product and content initiatives, including Pulse.   Kothari also played an important role in boosting the number of members publishing on LinkedIn from 1,000 to nearly 2 million in the last two years. "This new role also brings me back ‘ful...