OLX India has appointed Harvinder Pal Singh as its new head of industries. He joins the company from CarDekho, an auto vertical owned by IT company GirnarSoft, where he has been a senior associate director for client engagement.
View.com.au, an industry-owned real estate portal in Australia, has announced ex-REA Group executive Toby Balazs will replace Enzo Raimondo as the property site’s chief executive.
Jiraffe Inc., which operates used smartphones marketplace Smama.jp and a price comparison site Hikakaku.com, has appointed Atsushi Yoshida as its new chief technology officer (CTO).
CarSales, the Australia-based autos site, has appointed former IBM executive Kee Wong as a non-executive director to its board.
Leading horizontal in the United Arab Emirates Dubizzle has appointed Jonathon Padron as head of ad operations for Asia, Middle East, and Africa; while Chadi Antonios has been named head of sales and advertising.
Kununu, Europe’s leading Glassdoor-like employer rating site, has appointed a new MD and rolled out an employee engagement tool in the last two months as it continues international expansion.
Robert Rutkowski appears to be a new MD at Erento, a rental platform belonging to Austrian media firm Russmedia, which is reorganizing its leadership team.
Kijiji Canada has named former Hired Inc. sales executive Greg Abramowitz as head of real estate and jobs. He will lead sales and operations teams for both verticals, the company announced in a press statement sent to AIM Group.
Agustín Gómez, co-founder and CEO of Barcelona-based mobile marketplace Wallapop, said in an interview that the company would be profitable "within a year". Traditional classifieds are the "most profitable business on planet Earth," he added.
58.com Inc., China's largest classifieds provider, has announced that Jiandong Zhuang and Mingke He have been promoted to co-presidents of the company.
