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Snap Brings on Board Amazon & HuffPost Senior Executives
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Snap Brings on Board Amazon & HuffPost Senior Executives

The parent company of the photo messaging app Snapchat called Snap Inc has announced the appointment of Amazon's head of advertising Jeremi Gorman as its chief business officer. Along with him, HuffPost media company Chief Executive Jared Grusd will also join as the chief strategy officer. The moves were disclosed in an internal memo shared by Snap. It was last month that Snap said its Chief Strategy Officer Imran Khan would step down, with his last day still undetermined. Khan was the latest top-level resignation from the company surrounded by pressure to stem a drop in users following a controversial redesign of the Snapchat app. Snap has set an aim of becoming profitable next year by growing users and ad sales. Snap did not previously have a chief business officer overseeing it...
Ola Witnesses Resignation from Two Senior Executives
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Ola Witnesses Resignation from Two Senior Executives

With the exit of a lot of senior executives in various top companies, two senior executives of Ola have also stepped down. It has been reported that Saikiran Krishnamurthy and Joy Bandekar have left the company. Saikiran Krishnamurthy was popularly called Saiki among the Ola employees and held the position of a senior vice-president of growth in the company. Prior to this job, Saiki used to work at Flipkart a year ago. He was one of the highest paid executives at Flipkart when he was hired in 2015. Following the resignation, the latter is planning to start his own venture. Talking about Joy Bandekar, he was the corporate president of new initiatives at Ola. Prior to Ola, Bandekar also used to be a former Flipkart executive. He is exiting the ride-hailing company to enter the B2B e-co...