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Ex-Google Indonesia director hired as Vice Chairman of MatahariMall.com

Lippo Group, one of Indonesia’s largest business conglomerates, has appointed Rudy Ramawy, former country director for Google Indonesia, as vice chairman of its e-commerce unit MatahariMall.com.

Rudy served as director of Google Indonesia from January 2012 to March 2015, leading the opening of Google’s operations in the country, Lippo said in a statement on Monday. At Google, he also helped launch YouTube Indonesia and Google Street View.

Rudy – who studied at the University of California, Berkeley – previously served as a programming and production director at Indonesia’s oldest private television operation RCTI.

(Source: Jakarta Globe )