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Groupon Hires Indian American as VP of Engineering
Bangalore: Groupon, the daily deals company based in Chicago has appointed Indian-American Vinayak Hedge as its new VP of engineering. He will be looking after the marketing technology expansion of the company, from Groupon’s office in Seattle and will also be responsible for a new office which will be set up in Seattle soon.
Hedge was in charge of payment management and various business units while he was working at Amazon, along with running Amazon’s “Traffic Systems” group.
It is not the first time Groupon is hiring Amazonians and the list of former Amazon executives on its team is increasing, which includes CFO Jason Child, SVP of Product Jeff Holden and Kal Raman, who joined as SVP of Americas.
The office in Seattle is expected to have 20 employees and there will be facilities to automate the marketing efforts of the company, making it cheaper to attain customers with greater quality. The office will work closely with Palo Alto technology teams and Hedge will be responsible for both the locations.
Hedge who completed his higher studies from National Institute of Technology in Karnataka has earlier worked for Oracle, Verifone and Citicorp Overseas Software Ltd as a software engineer.