ShareChat Announces Appointment of Sunil Kamath as Chief Business Officer

by Shrutee K/DNS

Mumbai, November 22: ShareChat is a first of its kind language focussed social network, for the non-native English speaking emerging markets with more than 10 languages currently supported by the product. ShareChat has grown 20x in the last 1 year and have been downloaded more than 16 million times till date. With more than 5 million MAUs, and growing; our users generate 200k Indic content posts daily, making ShareChat the platform with the largest repository of Indian language content.

ShareChat has announced the appointment of Sunil Kamath as Chief Business Officer. Sunil Kamath comes with 17 years of experience in product management, business development and global sales in the consumer mobile business. In his management role at ShareChat, Sunil will be responsible for driving user growth strategies, product marketing, public relations, business partnerships and international expansion.

 “I am excited to be a part of the leadership team at ShareChat at this time of hyper-growth and market expansion that ShareChat is witnessing. The company has a commendable history of unprecedented consumer acquisition coupled with entrepreneurial spirit of the co-founders. I am looking forward to contributing to the next phase of growth at ShareChat.” Says Sunil Kamath.

Sunil Kamath has worked with startups like OnMobile & Obopay and recently was SVP-Asia at Opera Software. In 2010, Sunil setup the business for Opera in South Asia and later in South East Asia. Sunil has been instrumental in strategizing and executing on consumer growth, carrier partnerships, handset partnerships, advertising revenues and public relations for Opera in these years.

 “We are pleased to welcome Sunil Kamath to the executive team. Sunil has demonstrated leadership in his career, having run business in global markets at a bigger scale. ShareChat will look forward to his contributions in growing the business” says Farid Ahsan, CEO at ShareChat