India, May 13 -- Nikhil Gandhi, who was heading TikTok in Middle East, Turkey, Africa (META) and South Asia, has quit the ByteDance-owned short video platform, almost a year after the platform was banned in India. Gandhi joined TikTok in 2019 as head of India and South Asia and was redesignated to head META and South Asian market in January 2021.

In his nearly two decades of work experience, Gandhi has worked with some big brands like Viacom18, Bennett Coleman and Co Ltd, and UTV among others. He also served as the Vice President of The Walt Disney Company in India for nearly a decade, between 2007 and 2017. He was the president and COO of Times Network, between June 2017 and Jan 2019, before joining TikTok.

Nikhil Gandhi confirmed his ...