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Pradeep Rao Padala

Pradeep Rao Padala
SVP, Business Development
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Pradeep has multifarious experience accumulated over 20 years in new media, publishing, and telecom. He started his career in publishing with Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing and worked with the Orient Longman group before moving on to the media. As a print journalist he has over 1000 articles to his credit with one of the largest selling English newsweeklies, The Week magazine. He later moved to new media and led Yahoo! India’s publisher team for close to 5 years. Followed by a long stint in telecom where he led non-voice teams in Tata Teleservices Ltd (Now Tata Docomo), Aircel Ltd and headed operations for Sub Saharan Africa with Mahindra Comviva. He has co-founded Octobuz, a big data enterprise that is building a large media monitoring and clustering platform. He received his degree in literature from University of Delhi and is an alumni of the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.