Shashi is the senior vice president of Search products at Yahoo!, responsible for leading the company's efforts to invent a next-generation search experience.

Shashi has deep expertise in the Internet and Search industries, having held leadership positions at Google, eBay and AOL. Prior to his role with Yahoo!, he was the senior vice president of advertising products and search, and was Chief Revenue Officer at Cooliris. As the head of monetization for YouTube at Google, Shashi was responsible for building advertising products, exploring all monetization opportunities, and defining business models. At Google, Shashi was the product lead for Search, and managed the web search, search personalization, and community based search. He also built and launched the Google's Custom Search Engine product. During his time at eBay, he created and implemented the company's innovation and platform strategies.

Shashi holds over two dozen patents, and sits on the board of advisors of Ustream, Scribd, Jivox and BloomReach. He received a MS in Computer Science from the University of Poona and studied Computer Science at the University of Miami.