Rajesh will report to Founder and CEO,
Rajesh spent the last 15+ years in the Silicon Valley, working for companies like Digital Equipment Corporation, HP, Google and Motorola. He joins Hike from Motorola where he was most recently the Director and Head of Wearables and Internet-of-Things software. Before that, he led Android
Speaking on the occasion, Kavin Bharti Mittal, Founder and CEO, Hike Messenger said, “Rajesh has tremendous depth of experience in mobile having led large engineering teams to build some of the world’s most innovative products. Rajesh understands Hike’s mission to bring India online. His passion to solve consumer problems will enable us to realize our mission and build Hike into a product loved by 100’s of millions of people.”
Equally excited on this new journey. Rajesh Rudraradhya, Vice President and Head, Engineering, Hike Messenger, said, “I can sense the making of a great product when I see one and I believe Hike is in a great position to transform the messaging space in India. The opportunity to connect and serve a billion people is rare and what’s even more exciting is that we want to enable and connect people who will be using the internet for the first time in their lives on a mobile device.”
Rajesh is going to lead a global team and will be based out of Delhi.
Rajesh’s appointment follows other leadership announcements at Hike Messenger in the last 6 months viz. Vidur Vyas as Vice President, Marketing; Hemant Goyal as Vice President, Finance; Gautam Vohra as General Counsel; Sumit Mehra as Studio Head and Vikrant Bhatnagar as Head of Human Resources.