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The managing director of Yahoo India & Southeast Asia, Arun Tadanki, will be leaving Yahoo in July. Arun had joined Yahoo India as MD in 2009.

A statement from Yahoo quoted Tadanki as saying that he had worked for 11 years in CEO roles for Apac/ emerging markets regions at multinational internet companies, and he was looking forward to playing a very different role within the internet ecosystem, beyond this region. He however did not divulge his future plan.

A Yahoo spokesperson said about Takanki:"Under Arun's leadership, Yahoo India has seen impressive growth both in terms of users and advertising, outpacing the market. During the last 3 years, Arun also secured strong partnerships that drove 6-fold growth in Yahoo's mobile users in India. He led the formation of the editorial operation, delivering 15-fold traffic growth in Yahoo India's content properties. He played a key role in localizing the Yahoo experience with extensive local content partnerships across categories such as cricket, Bollywood, entertainment & news, in English and six local languages."

Tadanki's exit comes at a time when Yahoo is doing a major makeover under its latest CEO, Marissa Mayer, a Google veteran who took over in July last year.

Prior to Yahoo, Tadanki was president of Monster.com's Apac & Middle East operations for seven years. He became part of Monster in April 2002 when it acquired JobsAhead.com, where he was head of sales and marketing.