Arun Tadanki -The DJ Managing Director

Internet search major Yahoo! India appointed Arun Tadanki as the Managing Director of its India operations on 20^th May 2009 keeping its vibrant image in the industry in mind while doing so. This was a position which remained vacant for 20 months from August 2007 when the previous MD left the firm. Yahoo! India was on a winning streak and the dynamic profile of the job required someone as dynamic as Tadanki who could not only continue with the new dimension of the search engine business but also enthuse a flesh blood of purple in the organization.

Tadanki is one of the most contemporary business personalities that we have today. A part-time DJ who likes playing rock music, mostly from the 70’s and 80’s and a passionate music lover, he got trained at the Denon DJ School in Singapore. He likes playing at the ITC Luxury Hotel and Mojo, Gurgaon. His area of interest is not limited to music alone. He has a marked innate ability to sell ideas that are distinct and unconventional in nature. With net users being constantly bombarded with a plethora of choices, it is very challenging to attract a user to come to your website on a consistent basis and evermore difficult to retain them. However, Tadanki has been entrusted with the onus of spreading the realms of the internet horizon in a market with increasing capacity.

Tadanki has a rich professional background coupled with one of the best educational backgrounds from esteemed institutions in the country. He has a B. Tech Degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai and a PGDM from none other than the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Tadanki was President, Asia Pacific and Middle East at Monster.com. He had also served at JobsAhead.com as its Head of Sales & Marketing and was the Head of Culinary Business at Nestle, India. At Yahoo!, he will be responsible for expansion and consolidation of the business in India as well as sub-continental Asia, Middle East and Africa. His office is based in the NCR (Gurgaon) and reports directly to the Vice President of Emerging Markets, Keith Nilsson. He played a crucial part in bringing the high-profile CEO of Yahoo!, Carol Bartz to India last year in November. It brought about an investment campaign of $ 100 million in India and extended its advertising campaigns in a major way across the country. His efforts have also been rewarded with an increase in the user percentage by 40% and usher in the involvement of the company in the UIDAI Project.

It has further helped in stabilizing the languishing internet business of the company in India although there is a stiff and strong Google’s presence in the market. Tadanki has been honored in many ways for his outstanding leadership and abilities to turnaround businesses in his favor. India Today listed him as one of the “Top 50 Young Leaders of India” in 2005 while Business Today rated him as one of the “Top 25 Hottest Young Executives in India” in 2004. He is also very active in social networking websites like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. Arun Tadanki is one of those few executives who have matched the profile of his CV to the profile of his job. He maintains a very healthy attitude towards challenges and takes them on with intensity. He has inspired thousands of young managers in choosing the right career paths and moving ahead with a clear set of ideas that directs an individual with passion and an appetitie to win.