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With Amazon announcing it would invest $2 billion in its India operations one wonders what exactly the company has in store for the country. While that might take some time to unravel it’s worth taking a quick look at the team Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos trusted with the funds.
The Economic Times has listed out the three men leading the charge in India:
Amit Agarwal, country head: The IIT-Kanpur and Stanford alumnus has been with Amazon since 1999, shadowing CEO Bezos between 2007 and 2009, before heading the operations in India. Agarwal is seen as a workaholic and a team player. In an
interview with The Times of India, Agarwal said “As far as India is concerned, we are just getting started here, it is just day one, customers here should expect more investments in the coming years and decades as we will not slow down.” The ET report says theFuture Group’s Kishore Biyani had tried poaching Agarwal from Amazon in 2010 but failed.
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Amit Deshpande, head of seller services: Another IIT-Kanpur grad, Deshpande was at Infosys before pursuing higher education and then moving to Amazon with a brief stint at the US telco T-Mobile. His LinkedIn profile states: “At Amazon, I am helping build earth’s largest selection of products for customers and an easy to use, transparent and profitable sales channel for sellers in India. I am passionate about helping sellers succeed online especially small and medium sized businesses.” In a video interview with Livemint, Deshpande said Amazon’s strategy is to work backwards from what a customer wants. He emphasised Amazon’s commitment to making the online process easy for sellers by educating them.
Samir Kumar, director of international expansion: The NIT-Rourkela grad has been with Amazon since 1999 and occupied positions at various levels, including systems engineer, director of Fulfillment Centre Services and technical advisor, international retail. Kumar has been the man behind Amazon scoring exclusive deals with the likes of Philips, Disney and the IPL.
Read the entire Economic Times story here.
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