Debadutta Upadhyaya who is the National Sales Head at Yahoo! India Ltd is said to have put in her papers at the company. According to our sources Debadutta Upadhyaya is set to join Vdopia as Country Manager for India. Vdopia was recently in their news when they launched technology for dynamic ad insertion in live video streaming.
Given Debadutta’s past experience in Sales we expect her to drive the same at Vdopia. We contacted Vdopia PR and they said they couldn’t confirm the news at this moment but would soon come out with an official story.
Debadutta spent almost 6 years in Yahoo and grew from her role as Account Manager in 2004 to National Sales Head in 2008. Prior to Yahoo she had spent 8 years in the Times group.
Yahoo had last year had one other top level exit in Sharad Sharma who was the R&D CEO at Yahoo who later joined Canaan Partners as entrepreneur in residence. Its interesting to see startups taking high profile exec’s away from established internet companies like Yahoo. Its also a sign that the employees are also willing to take a risk and join new startups. Good sign for the internet industry I say!
How many National Sales heads that yahoo has? :0
Everybody who quits yahoo claims that they are national sales head