MUMBAI: Google Southeast Asia and India VP Rajan Anandan has resigned from the company. Currently, in notice period, Anandan will be working with the company till the end of April.

Country director-sales Vikas Agnihotri will take on the responsibility in the interim for Google India, till Google India finds a new MD.

Hailing from Sri Lanka, Anandan leaves Google after spending a little over eight years at the company. He was previously MD of Microsoft India till August 2010. Prior to that, he was vice president and country general manager at Dell India. Anandan is also an active angel investor and a member of the Indian Angel Network.

Google Asia Pacific president Scott Beaumont said in a statement, “We are grateful to Rajan for his huge contribution to Google over the past eight years. His entrepreneurial zeal and leadership have helped grow the overall internet ecosystem in India and Southeast Asia, and we wish him all the best in his new adventures.”