Shailesh Bhat serves as a senior product manager for Yahoo! Local – one of the most visited local search sites online. In this role, Shailesh is responsible for driving key monetization efforts and helping build and maintain features that increase the overall Yahoo! Local consumer experience.

Prior to working with Yahoo! Local, Shailesh worked at Yahoo! Bangalore as a product manager for the mobile products and market innovation group. In this position, he conceptualized and helped drive new products to-market for India’s quickly growing mobile user base. Shailesh brings nearly a decade of experience in product management, sales, and software development to Yahoo!, having also held earlier positions with MitoKen Solutions and Quark.

Shailesh holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management and a Bachelor of Engineering from the BMS college of Engineering, Bangalore.