Umang Bedi is new President of Dailyhunt

Umang Bedi has joined Dailyhunt as its President.

Umang Bedi has recently concluded a successful tenure as the Managing Director of Facebook for India and South Asia. His contributions were instrumental in India emerging as amongst the largest markets for Facebook globally. The Harvard Business School Alumnus, reported for being a change agent is a sought-after name for his ability to scale businesses. Having led global enterprises such as Adobe, Intuit, Symantec in India and South Asia, Umang has championed collaborative cross-functional management.

He has been the recipient of coveted awards, including – Fortune India 40 Under 40, GQ's 50 Most Influential Young Indians and 40 Under 40 by The Economic Times.

On his appointment, Umang Bedi said, “This is a tremendous opportunity to drive scale via Dailyhunt’s ‘Made-in-India’ platform. The intention is to serve the unmet, underserved needs of Indians who live in tier-2, -3 and -4 cities and rural areas and provide them with personalized, relevant, meaningful experiences. With skin in the game in this truly entrepreneurial undertaking, one has a heightened sense of responsibility, and the challenge is exhilarating.”

Virendra Gupta, Founder of Dailyhunt, said, "We are seeing unprecedented growth in time spent for truly local content across text, images and video. Dailyhunt has already achieved substantial impact and our ambition is to consolidate our leadership position in local language content & advertising and exponentially scale this leading platform. Umang’s background in social media content and experience leading scaled teams generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues is a great fit with our plans. I welcome him on board and look forward to partnering closely with him on our journey, going forward.”