Facebook India appoints Pulkit Trivedi to head e-comm, retail, travel & financial services

NEW DELHI: Facebook has appointed Pulkit Trivedi as industry director for e-commerce, retail, travel and financial services verticals, to lead building and maintaining of strategic relationships with clients in India.

Trivedi, who joins Facebook from Google India, where he was Head of Industry, eCommerce since April 2012. He has 18 years experience and has worked with Microsoft, IBM and HCL in the past.

“We are thrilled to have Pulkit join the talented Facebook team to help grow our advertising business. Pulkit is a well proven business professional who along with our teams will strengthen our ability to deliver personalized marketing at scale to clients in India.”said, Umang Bedi, Managing Director, Facebook India.

Trivedi is an MBA from BITS Mesra and was featured in the “Hottest Young Business Leaders under 40” in India list by Business Today in 2015.