Shashi is the senior vice president of Search and Marketplaces at Yahoo!, responsible for delivering innovative, meaningful search, local and listings experiences on Yahoo! Search results pages and across the Yahoo! network on all connected devices.
Shashi has deep expertise in the Internet and Search industries, having held leadership positions at Google, eBay and AOL. Prior to his role with Yahoo!, he was the senior vice president of advertising products and search at AOL, and was Chief Revenue Officer at Cooliris. As the head of monetization for YouTube at Google, Shashi was responsible for building advertising products, exploring all monetization opportunities, and defining business models. At Google, Shashi was the product lead for Search, and managed the web search, search personalization, and community based search. He also built and launched the Google’s Custom Search Engine product. During his time at eBay, he created and implemented the company’s innovation and platform strategies.
Shashi holds over two dozen patents, and sits on the board of advisors of Ustream, Scribd, Jivox and BloomReach. He received a MS in Computer Science from the University of Poona and studied Computer Science at the University of Miami.