Former Rakuten Marketing MD JJ Eastwood has joined the fast-growing marketplace app Carousell.
Eastwood, who was MD at Rakuten for Asia-Pacific for more than a year, steps into the managing director of advertising role at the Singapore-based Carousell.
The classified marketplace was founded in 2012 and has been rapidly growing ever since. In its Series C round of funding last year it raised $US85 million.
Eastwood who will be based in Singapore for the role also has extensive experience in Australia prior to joining Rakuten.
He was previously CEO of Huffington Post Australia and has also worked at Rocket Fuel as MD of advertising and eBay Australia as GM of advertising across five years.
Eastwood has also worked at Microsoft, Fairfax Media and News Corp in Australia.
Replacing his role as MD at Rakuten is Anthony Capano, who has been promoted from MD of EMEA to MD of International. Capano now covers all markets outside of the US and Japan, including Asia-Pacific and Latin-America.
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