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Ex-Google and Uber exec joins Pipedrive as Chief Product Officer

Pipedrive today announced the appointment of Vinay Ramani as the company’s Chief Product Officer, based in London.

Having been based in Silicon Valley for two decades, Vinay joins Pipedrive from Google, where he was Product Lead on the Search Ads team - having successfully incubated new products that better understand user task journeys and leading the introduction of Ads on the Google Feed.

Before joining Google, Vinay Ramani held product leadership roles within high profile customer-centric organizations including Uber, Yahoo! and Adobe. At Uber, Vinay created the Global Growth organisation which helped Uber gain tremendous traction in China, India and Latam. His teams built new products, payment mechanisms, sign-up flows, viral programs that fueled this rapid growth.

Timo Rein, Co-Founder and CEO of Pipedrive, comments, “Pipedrive has always been a product-driven company, and Vinay will help progress innovations that deliver for our business strategy. He is the ideal visionary and leader for our product teams. Vinay is a great fit to our company and we’re excited about our future together”.

Vinay Ramani, comments,“It is a great privilege to join Timo and the executive team and shape the future of work for hard working sales teams.”

Pipedrive is looking to capitalize on a surging global CRM market worth over $40 Billion according to Gartner. Having recently won an addition $60million series C funding round, the company is focused on further expanding its R&D, accelerating customer growth across its global footprint, and exploring strategic acquisitions.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Henry .