Nikhil Rungta joins Google India as marketing head

Nikhil Rungta has joined Google India as head of marketing. Before this, Rungta was marketing head at Yatra.com, an online travel agency.

An official statement by Google says, "Rungta will be based out of our Bangalore office and will be responsible for driving the strategy and execution of all marketing efforts to support Google's sales verticals, products and partnerships in India."

Rungta has around 13 years of work experience across sales, marketing and advertising functions, since 1998, when he joined Shaw Wallace & Company as product manager and handled the Royal Challenge Premium Lager and Haywards 5000 beer brands.

In 2000, he moved to Contract Advertising as account supervisor and managed brand communications for NIIT. Thereafter, he switched to Dhar & Hoon Communications as account director and handled advertising and brand planning for clients such as Revlon, - Real Juices and Aiwa.

Later in 2003, he joined McCann Erickson India as client servicing director and handled clients such as MasterCard and Microsoft XBOX. In 2006, he moved to Yatra.com.