Durgesh Kaushik

Durgesh Kaushik is a blogger,^[2][3] speaker^[4] and angel investor^[5] based in India. He is a former CMO at Edureka.^[6] He previously worked at Facebook in the SMB marketing team in Dublin and Singapore, looking after EMEA^[7] and APAC^[8] markets respectively. He holds an MBA degree from University of California, Irvine, and a B.E. from NSIT, Delhi University. He is followed by over 100,000 people on Facebook ^[9] and 6,000 followers on LinkedIn.^[10]

Career

After completing his engineering in Information Technology from NSIT, Delhi University,^[11] Kaushik joined Dell Services as a software engineer.^[12] Thereafter, he went to USA to complete his MBA at University of California, Irvine.^[13] During his MBA, he worked on social networking research projects and was a teaching assistant for organizational behavior and information systems courses. At UC Irvine, he also developed a social network (now defunct) called mayanet.org,^[14] which was aimed at addressing users' privacy concerns through user generated privacy policy. After his MBA, Kaushik was appointed as the marketing head at InfoStretch Corporation, a Silicon Valley-based start-up. He then joined SMB Marketing team at Facebook in Dublin, looking after EMEA market. He was then selected for Jio Young Leadership Program by Reliance Industries.^[15] After a short stint at Jio, Kaushik joined SMB Marketing team at Facebook in Singapore, looking after the APAC market. He was then appointed as the Chief Marketing Officer by Edureka.^[16][17] Currently, Kaushik is a start-up advisor,^{[18][19][20][21]} industry speaker^{[22][23][24][25][26]} and blogger. He is an author at DigitalMarket.Asia,^[27][28] Deccan Chronicle,^[29] Digital Doughnut^[30] and imwire.net.^[31]

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