Prashant oversees all brand, search advertiser and publisher organizations including sales, business development, strategy and advertiser products for Yahoo!’s Emerging Markets Group. Prashant has been with Yahoo! for over seven years. During this tenure, he has served in several key management positions within the company. Prior to this, he was responsible for brand advertising sales across Asia-Pacific where he helped build a strong leadership team across the region and secured Yahoo!’s lead within the online display and brand advertising business. 

Earlier, Prashant led Yahoo!’s Strategic Alliance team where he was responsible for developing, negotiating, structuring and managing some of Yahoo!’s most strategic partnerships with global 500 corporations like HSBC, Best Buy, Philips, and JPMorgan Chase (formerly BankOne).  Prashant sits on Yahoo!’s internal advertising council, which sets the company's global advertising policy and helps drive the overall strategic direction of Yahoo!’s advertising business.

Prior to Yahoo!, Prashant worked at Lehman Brothers in New York as an Emerging Markets Derivatives Trader.  Earlier, he founded the Student Credit Union at Rutgers University. 

Prashant holds a B.S. degree in Biochemistry from Rutgers University and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.