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Oracle India appoints Prabhjot Minhas as Senior Director & Head of Marketing
Seasoned tech marketer to drive brand strategy and demand generation in key growth market.
MUMBAI: Oracle India has just upgraded its marketing engine with a powerful new driver because when you’re navigating the fast lane of cloud and enterprise technology, you need someone who knows how to accelerate with precision. Prabhjot Minhas has been appointed as Senior Director and Head of Marketing at Oracle India. In her new role, she will lead strategic marketing initiatives, strengthen brand positioning, and accelerate demand generation to support the company’s business expansion across the country.
Minhas brings with her over 15 years of rich experience in marketing leadership across global technology organisations. She joins Oracle from Autodesk, where she served as Head of Marketing for India & SAARC, successfully steering regional marketing strategy and growth initiatives. Prior to that, she held key roles at SAP Concur, Teradata, and SAP, building deep expertise in brand building, digital marketing, and enterprise demand generation.
Her appointment highlights Oracle India’s continued focus on bolstering its market presence and enhancing customer engagement in one of the world’s most promising technology markets.
From crafting sharp brand campaigns to generating serious demand in the enterprise space, Prabhjot Minhas has spent her career making complex technology feel approachable and exciting. Now at Oracle, she gets the chance to help millions of Indian businesses see the cloud not just as technology, but as a genuine growth partner.
In the competitive world of enterprise software, where every brand is fighting for mindshare, Oracle has clearly decided it’s time to turn up the volume on its marketing playbook.
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LinkedIn names Daniel Shapero CEO as Microsoft doubles down on AI shift
Ryan Roslansky moves to Microsoft AI role as LinkedIn bets on insider leadership
CALIFORNIA: Microsoft has appointed Daniel Shapero as the new chief executive of LinkedIn, marking a key leadership shift as the company sharpens its focus on artificial intelligence.
Shapero, a long-time insider who joined LinkedIn in 2008, steps up from his role as chief operating officer. He succeeds Ryan Roslansky, who will transition into a broader role within Microsoft to work on AI-led productivity initiatives, reporting to Satya Nadella.
The move signals more of a strategic reshuffle than a traditional leadership exit. Roslansky, who led LinkedIn for six years and oversaw a near doubling of its user base to 1.3 billion, will now help integrate AI capabilities across Microsoft’s core productivity ecosystem, including its Office suite.
For LinkedIn, the choice of Shapero reflects continuity. Often described as “employee 300-ish”, he has spent nearly two decades across the company’s key functions, from sales and marketing to product and operations. As chief operating officer since 2021, he has been closely involved in scaling the platform’s business, including growth in premium subscriptions and advertising.
In his first message as CEO, Shapero emphasised LinkedIn’s core mission of driving economic opportunity, noting that the rise of AI makes that mission even more critical. He signalled a leadership approach focused on listening and learning, while preparing professionals to navigate rapid technological change.
The timing is telling. LinkedIn currently sits at a strong inflection point, with annual revenue estimated at around $19 billion and continued double-digit growth driven by AI-powered tools and advertising solutions. Microsoft’s broader strategy appears to position LinkedIn and its productivity suite as twin pillars of the modern workplace.
With Roslansky shaping AI strategy at the parent level and Shapero steering LinkedIn’s next chapter, the transition sets the stage for a deeper integration of generative AI into how professionals connect, learn and work.
The Roslansky era was about scale. The Shapero chapter now begins with a different brief: make AI central to the future of work.
