MUMBAI: US Video on Demand (Vod) service Hulu‘s senior VP of international, Johannes Larcher, has stepped down.

His departure comes ahead of reports that the company will be sold. There are seven companies chasing it including Yahoo!.

Larcher joined Hulu in 2009 and two years later oversaw the site‘s move into the Japanese market. This is its only foreign launch so far.

Larcher led the company‘s expansion to Japan two years back and was tasked with launching the service in other territories.