K. Guru Gowrappan Joins Management Team to Accelerate Growth &
Global Expansion
Company Website:
https://www.oath.com/
NEW YORK -- (Business Wire)
Today, Oath, a Verizon (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) subsidiary announces that K.
Guru Gowrappan will join the company as President and COO. Guru
previously served as Global Managing Director at Alibaba Group. He will
play a pivotal role in leading the company’s operations and global
growth strategy, as Oath enters its second year. Leveraging his
experience in scaling businesses globally, Guru will work with CEO Tim
Armstrong and the Oath and Verizon leadership teams to cement Oath’s
position as a powerhouse of trusted media and technology brands
including AOL, BUILD, HuffPost, MAKERS, TechCrunch, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo
News and Yahoo Sports. He will report to Armstrong.
“Oath serves a billion global consumers and the world’s most important
brands in the most disruptive area of the economy and adding Guru as
President and COO will accelerate our clear vision into a platform for
growth for years to come,” said Tim Armstrong, CEO, Oath. “We have an
amazing ecosystem of digital brands and platforms, the backing of the
best mobile company in the world - Verizon, and a culture centered
around the best external and internal talent we can work with as a
company - and those strengths are only going to get stronger by adding
Guru to help lead the company into the future.”
“There’s no other industry that can change history like ours can, and no
company better poised for rapid global growth than Oath,” said
Gowrappan, President and COO, Oath. “Very few companies in the world
have the ecosystem potential that Oath has. The content and technology
across Oath and Verizon creates a huge market opportunity, and I look
forward to joining the team to help the company through the next phase
of global growth.”
In his role as President & COO, Guru will be responsible for the
day-to-day operating businesses at Oath including all of the consumer
and customer brands, operations, products, and technology.
At Alibaba, Guru was the Global Managing Director focused on
international expansion for key consumer and enterprise products across
ecommerce, entertainment & media, payments and the entire commerce
enabling stack. Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer at Quixey, a
mobile startup, and prior to that he was the COO for Growth / Emerging
Initiatives at Zynga. He has also held several leadership roles at Yahoo
and Overture.
About Oath
Oath, a subsidiary of Verizon, is a values-led company committed to
building brands people love. Oath reaches one billion people around the
world with a dynamic house of media and technology brands. A global
leader in digital and mobile, Oath is shaping the future of media. For
more on Oath, visit www.oath.com.
About Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ), headquartered in New
York City, generated $126 billion in 2017 revenues. The company operates
America's most reliable wireless network and the nation's premier
all-fiber network, and delivers integrated solutions to businesses
worldwide.
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Contacts:
Oath
Allison Butler
allison.butler@oath.com
Source: Oath
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