NEW DELHI: Caller ID app Truecaller has elevated chief product officer Rishit Jhunjhunwala to managing director, with immediate effect. The firm’s co-founder & CEO Alan Mamedi made the announcement via a post on professional networking site LinkedIn.

“I'm thrilled and proud to announce that Rishit Jhunjhunwala is taking on the role as our managing director, where he'll drive and inspire our fantastic team in India. Looking forward to 6+ more years buddy (sic),” Mamedi wrote.

Jhunjhunwala joined Truecaller in March 2015 as vice president – product. In June 2020, he was made chief product officer. During his tenure at the company, he has led app redesigns and helped develop features like spam activity indicator, call reason, schedule SMS and SMS translate, to name a few.

Prior to Truecaller, Jhunjhunwala co-founded the email service CloudMagic. He also had stints at July Systems and Verity Technologies.