He will be replaced by Paul Barlow who is a highly-experienced senior leader and has been with Carsales for 13 years, the past eight years as managing director of International.
Mr Bhatia, who joins mobile.de in Germany from August 1, has almost 20 years experience in online classifieds in Australia and Asia.
He has extensive experience in the automotive classified vertical, as well as real estate, employment and general classifieds.
He has also held a range of leadership roles covering general management, product, technology, sales and digital marketing.
In 2015 he was named Australian CIO of the Year by CEO Magazine.
He graduated from Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program and has a Masters in Management from the University of Technology, Sydney. He is also a professor at UTS Business School.
Adevinta CEO Rolv Erik Ryssdal said: “Ajay Bhatia brings everything to drive mobile.de’s continued growth ambitions and is a fantastic addition to the Adevinta executive team.”
“We have extensively sought the new CEO of mobile.de and are certain that Ajay Bhatia’s expertise in the classifieds industry, his strong product and technology background and his experience in leading growth companies will be of great value to mobile.de and Adevinta.”
Mr Bhatia said: “I am very much looking forward to joining Adevinta as CEO of mobile.de.”
“The mobile.de team has done an excellent job in building Germany’s leading vehicle market. I look forward to working closely together to drive consumer and business innovation.”
By Neil Dowling
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