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2021

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following Indian origin lady has been appointed as the CEO of Waze?
A
Nikita Arora
B
Sonia Syngal
C
Neha Parikh
D
Anjali Sud
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Neha Parikh, the former Indian-American president of the travel website Hotwire, has been appointed as the new CEO of Waze, a crowd-sourced navigation app and a subsidiary of tech giant Google.

Detailed explanation-2: -The former Hotwire Inc. president has been Waze’s CEO since June 2021. Geo is headed by Christopher Phillips, the former chief product and technology officer at SiriusXM, who joined the company around the same time last year as Parikh did. Waze CEO Neha Parikh is set to leave the Google LLC business.

Detailed explanation-3: -Neha Parikh is an Indian-American business executive. In June 2021, Parikh became CEO of Waze, a subsidiary of Google. Prior to becoming CEO of Waze, Neha was the President of Hotwire within the Expedia Group until 2020.

Detailed explanation-4: -The software was originally developed in Israel by Waze Mobile, a company founded by Israeli entrepreneurs Ehud Shabtai, Amir Shinar, and Uri Levine.

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