Uber India chief Pradeep Parameswaran to lead Asia-Pacific operations

Car-hailing major Uber India on Thursday announced that the president of its India and South Asia operations, Pradeep Parameswaran, will have an expanded role as regional general manager for the Asia-Pacific.

Parameswaran will take charge of the new job on June 19. He will oversee Uber’s rides business in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand.

In some countries like Australia he will be locking horns with his desi rival Ola, which, too, has SoftBank as its common investor Uber is looking at shifting its Asia-Pacific headquarters from Singapore after it sold its business in Southeast Asia to Singapore-based Grab, exiting in eight countries, which, apart from Singapore, included Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines.