Facebook appoints Umang Bedi as Facebook India MD

Facebook India on 7 June 2016 appointed Umang Bedi as its Managing Director (MD).
Bedi will take over from Kirthiga Reddy. Reddy will be returning to the US to take on a new role at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters.
•    Bedi will officially start at Facebook in July 2016 while Reddy will take up her new role in August 2016.
•    Bedi has close to two decades of leadership experience covering sales, marketing and partnerships with multinational companies.
•    Prior to joining Facebook, Umang Bedi worked as Managing Director for South Asia at Adobe Inc.
•    He is an engineering graduate from the University of Pune. He is also an alumnus of Harvard Business School.
•    He is the recipient of the prestigious 40 Under Forty: India’s Hottest Business Leaders Award 2014 given by The Economic Times and Chicago-based global executive search and leadership consulting firm Spencer Stuart.