OpenAI has appointed Akash Iyer as India Social Lead, a role he took up in August 2025. He brings over a decade of experience across media and digital platforms and will lead social strategy, content, and community engagement for India.
He shared the news of his appointment on LinkedIn.
He was previously with Netflix as Films and Series Marketing Manager from March 2023 to August 2025. Before that, he led social marketing as Platform Lead at Netflix from January 2021 to March 2023 and served as Brand & Editorial Manager from December 2018 to January 2021.
Iyer has also worked at BuzzFeed as Senior Producer from June 2017 to December 2018 and Consulting Producer from December 2016 to May 2017. He was Creative Director at SportsKeeda.com from June 2015 to November 2016 and Editor/Producer at The Glitch from April 2015 to June 2015. Earlier, he worked with SportsKeeda as Producer from October 2012 to June 2013, and as Research Analyst at RR Donnelley from July 2010 to July 2012.
