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Salim Mitha

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Salim is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Wahanda (www.wahanda.com), a London based health, beauty and wellness community & marketplace that connects consumers, wellness businesses and professionals through content, ratings & reviews and commerce. Salim co-founded Wahanda with Lopo Champalimaud in February 2008.

Prior to Wahanda, Salim was at Yahoo! Europe for four years where he was the Senior Director for Search (Web, Image, Video, News Search) and Social Search (Y! Answers, delicious, MyWeb). Salim was responsible for product launches, product strategy, monetisation (full P&L responsibility), distribution and quality for all of these products across Yahoo!’s principal European markets (UK&Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Germany). Salim initially focused on core Web Search improvements in the algorithmic rollouts of the Yahoo! Search Technology, as well as improvements to the monetisation of Search by working closely with Overture and Yahoo! Search Marketing. Towards the end of his time at Yahoo!, Salim transitioned his focus to the launch and development of Yahoo!’s Web 2.0 social search products, with a particular focus on Yahoo! Answers and its integration into core Web Search.

Prior to Yahoo!, Salim spent over two years working on several M&A and Corporate Finance transactions while an Associate at Merrill Lynch Europe in the Telecoms Media & Telecom practice of the Investment Banking Division. Major transactions include the merger of BMG Recorded Music with Sony Recorded Music, the sale of the Universal & Paramount globally owned UCI cinema chain and various transactions for lastminute.com, including the public market acquisition of Online Travel Corporation.

Salim has also worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and A.T. Kearney on both Spain and the US, and also helped consumer products startup Microban establish a European presence in the late 90’s.

Salim holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Salim speaks Spanish fluently and depending on the day, is conversational in French.

Milestones

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  Salim Mitha added a position as Associate at McKinsey & Company.
  Posted 12/21/08 at 2:49am
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  Salim Mitha added a position as Management Consulting: Strategy & Operations at A.T. Kearney.
  Posted 7/11/08 at 5:42am
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  Salim Mitha added a position as European Business Director at Microban International.
  Posted 7/11/08 at 5:42am
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  Salim Mitha added a position as Search & Social Search Director - Senior European Director at Yahoo!.
  Posted 7/11/08 at 5:42am
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  Salim Mitha added a position as Co-founder / COO at Wahanda.
  Posted 7/9/08 at 6:33am

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