Nitin Gajria, Managing Director, Sub-Saharan Africa, Google

Nitin Gajria is the Managing Director for Sub-Saharan Africa at Google. He has been at Google for over 8 years. In his role, Nitin spends his time working out how to make the internet more helpful for Africa and how technology can be an enabler for amazing things.

Prior to this role, Nitin led the YouTube business in India & South-East Asia, has led Google in Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos and has also worked across industries ranging from cosmetics and detergents to infant nutrition having spent time at Procter & Gamble and Mead Johnson.

Nitin is keenly interested in technology start-ups and is an angel investor himself. He is a husband and a father. While he hails from Mumbai, he also calls Singapore, Sydney, Manila, Ho Chi Minh City and Johannesburg home.