Rajan Anandan To Join Sequoia Capital as MD

Rajan Anandan,VP for Google South East Asia who stepped down from his role at the tech giant will join the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India as Managing Director.

Vikas Agnihotri, who’s in charge of sales across India for Google, will take over in the interim. Anandan will continue in his current role until the end of the month. Scott Beaumont, President, Google Asia Pacific is expected to take up the position eventually.

Anandan was associated with Google for over 8 years and has been largely responsible for the aggressive growth of Google’s business in the country.

Prior to joining Google he was the MD of Microsoft India till August 2010 and Country General Manager at Dell India.