Vijay Iyer, who was leading Amazon’s Ad Monetisation practice in India for the last five years has now moved on and joined the e-commerce major’s rival Flipkart in the capacity of VP and GM for Flipkart Ads.
During his close to a decade long stint at Amazon, he served the role of India Head- Agency Business from April 2016 to December 2019 and was elevated to the position of India Head- Ad Monetisation in December 2019.
Prior to joining the e-commerce major, Iyer was associated with RML Information Services as VP- Enterprise Revenue for about two-and-a-half years, starting November 2013. During this time, he was responsible for running Revenue, Marketing and Acquisition practices at the company.
Before that, he served the role of SVP- APAC at AdNear between December 2012 and November 2013.
In the past, Iyer also worked with Komli Media for over four years across multiple roles ranging from that of Director- Sales Strategy, GM- Social Media and Publisher Group and GM and Business Head- Komli Play.
He started his career as Territory Manager at Contests2win.com in 2004 and moved to Yahoo! India in October 2005 to serve as Manager- Sales Strategy in October 2005 and went on to serve the same till September 2008.
