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Quixey Appoints Sudhir Mohan EVP Engineering

By TechTaffy Desk

Quixey, a search engine for apps, has appointed Sudhir Mohan as executive vice president of Engineering.

Formerly, Mr. Mohan spent four years at eBay, where he was head of technology for the eBay Commerce Network and head of e-commerce platform engineering. Prior to eBay, Mr. Mohan spent five years at Yahoo as a technology executive leading vertical search.  

Mr. Mohan will be responsible for leading Quixey’s engineering and science team, and guiding the company’s technology innovation and development.

In the past year, Quixey also hired former Google executive Richard Gregory as EVP of Revenue and former Zynga executive Guru Gowrappan as EVP of Products.  

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