WhatsApp names new India head to grow its biggest market
|New Delhi (CNN Business)WhatsApp finally has an executive to run its business in its most important global market.
The mobile messaging platform, owned by Facebook (FB), has appointed its first India chief, it said in a statement late on Wednesday. Abhijit Bose, co-founder and CEO of Indian digital payments firm Ezetap, will become head of WhatsApp India in early 2019.
“Bose will build WhatsApp’s first full country team outside of California,” the company said.