Microsoft has announced the appointment of Mr. Rajneesh Chopra as Director - Windows Live Commercial to spearhead Microsoft's efforts around Windows Live in India. Windows Live is a crucial aspect of Microsoft's core business and is poised for a significant growth in the near future. In his new role, Rajneesh Chopra will be responsible for driving the adoption of Windows Live in India . His focus will be on ramping up penetration of key Live web services like Hotmail, MSN Messenger, Spaces etc. especially in the commercial enterprise and partner space.
Welcoming Rajneesh into the company Mr. Prasanna Meduri, Director – Windows Client Business Group, Microsoft India said, “Windows Live Commercial forms a crucial part of Microsoft's business. With the wealth of experience Rajneesh brings in on all aspects of online marketing and operations, he will definitely help us drive and grow this significant aspect of our business. We are delighted to have him on board and look forward to learning from his knowledge pool.”
Rajneesh who has just started his tenure at Microsoft said, “I am really excited that I have this opportunity to enable businesses to quickly build or extend community capabilities which will help them engage with their end users seamlessly and at the same time enable the end user to connect, learn, share and communicate with each other.”
Rajneesh joins Microsoft from Web18 where he headed marketing for leading online destinations like moneycontrol.com, IBNLive.com, cricketnext.com and the Hindi portal Josh18.com. He was responsible for brand building, acquisition and retention of new users, search engine optimization, creating new properties, repackaging & repurposing content for monetization among other activities. Prior to Web18, he setup and spearheaded the CRM initiative of Indiatimes.com, specifically the e-commerce business, and drove marketing and operations for Indiatimes' business knowledge platform, Indiatimes Mindscape.
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