Truecaller appoints Jijendran Ravindran as its GBD vice president
Bengaluru : Truecaller announced the appointment of Jijendran Ravindran as Vice President of Global Business Development.
Jijendran joins Truecaller from Xiaomi, where he was the Associate Director and Lead for MIUI India. He was responsible for managing and driving the overall business strategy for the brand.
“I am excited to have JJ on board. And I am confident that he will push our ambitions of having Truecaller in every connected device globally. His extensive experience and accomplishments in his recent past stints will definitely take our efforts to another level,” Truecaller Chief Commercial Officer Kari Krishnamurthy said.
Jijendran’s work involved customisation of apps for India, app promotion, portfolio growth, managing partnerships and revenue across the MIUI properties and handling a large team of talents.
Jijendran has extensive experience of working across varied sectors spanning telecom operators, smartphone brands & Start-ups. His rich experience of over 16 years includes new partnerships, strategy, business development, operations, marketing, advertising & customer insights.
He will lead the business development function and will report to Kari Krishnamurthy, Chief Commercial Officer.
Jijendran will be working towards expanding business and growth across markets. He brings to the table an innate knack for understanding consumers, a bias for action and people development experience.
Prior to Xiaomi, Jijendran was heading app partnerships for Micromax in India, Sri Lanka, Russia and Bangladesh. He has also been associated with Airtel and Vodafone in the past.
“I feel both honoured and humbled on being appointed by Truecaller. I firmly believe in Truecaller’s mission … I look forward to taking up this challenging and exciting new role to create long term sustainable value for all stakeholders in the company,” Jijendran said.
Truecaller has over 280 million active users, with half a billion downloads since launch and 30 billion unwanted calls identified and blocked.
Headquartered in Stockholm, since 2009, the firm is a co-founder-led, entrepreneurial company, with a highly experienced management team.
