Lippo Group, one among Indonesia’s largest enterprise conglomerates, has appointed Rudy Ramawy, former nation 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, main the opening of Google’s operations within the nation, Lippo stated in a press release on Monday. At Google, he additionally helped launch YouTube Indonesia and Google Road View.
Rudy — who studied on the College of California, Berkeley — beforehand served as a programming and manufacturing director at Indonesia’s oldest personal tv operation RCTI.
Lippo additionally appointed know-how entrepreneur Hadi Wenas as MatahariMall.com’s chairman and Emirsyah Satar, former president director of nationwide flag service Garuda Indonesia, as a commissioner.
“I really feel very honored to be working with a tremendous staff consisting of Emirsyah Satar and Hadi Wenas. I consider with our group, MatahariMall could possibly be the most important e-commerce [company] in Indonesia,” Rudy stated within the assertion.
Rudy is optimistic of the rising potential of e-commerce in Indonesia, saying that that in lots of nations, e-commerce has confirmed to be the simplest financial increase that provides equal alternative to small, center and big-sized corporations.
MatahariMall.com says on its web site that it expects to start out operations in the summertime of 2015.
