Washington Post (WPO) Appoints Vijay Ravindran as Chief Digital Officer
Vijay Ravindran has been named senior vice president and chief digital officer of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO). He will assume his responsibilities with the Company in February 2009.
An Amazon.com veteran, Ravindran was director, from 2003 to 2005, of the ordering services group, the department that owned the product development and operations for the "Your Account," "Shopping Cart," "1-Click" and "Proceed to Checkout" components of all Amazon properties. From 2001 to 2003, he managed the teams that owned the core order-processing and identity services for Amazon and its partners. Ravindran joined Amazon in 1998 as a senior software engineer.
The Washington Post Company is a diversified education and media company whose principal operations include educational and career services, newspaper and magazine publishing, television broadcasting, cable television systems and electronic information services.[SM]
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