Mumbai: Meta India country leader Ajit Mohan has decided to move on. His resignation comes into immediate effect. Reports suggest that he is all set to join Snap, the social media company.

Mohan had joined Meta (the erstwhile Facebook) as the managing director for the India market in January 2019. He was preceded by Umang Bedi who quit in October 2017.

Prior to Meta, Mohan was chief executive officer of Star India’s (now Disney Star’s) video streaming service Hotstar for four years.

As per reports, Meta vice president of global business group Nicola Mendelsohn said in a statement, “Mohan has decided to step down from his role at Meta to pursue another opportunity outside of the company.”

"Over the last four years, he has played an important role in shaping and scaling our India operations so they can serve many millions of Indian businesses, partners and people. We remain deeply committed to India and have a strong leadership team in place to carry on all our work and partnerships. We are grateful for Mohan’s leadership and contribution and wish him the very best for the future." he added.