The new Chief Executive Officer of the company, Rahul Roy Chowdhary, was announced by San Francisco-based Grammarly, which provides English writing assistance services. The change will be effective from May 1st as the Global Head of Product.
The company's current CEO, Brad Hoover wrote in a blog, "We are now at an inflection point for our product and business." Seizing this moment and reaching the next orders of magnitude requires us to move faster and at a larger scale. A new era of leadership can help drive this inflection. After twelve years at the helm of Grammarly, I am passing the baton to our current Global Head of Product, Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, who will become CEO on May 1. Hoover also wrote that Grammarly is a deeply technical, product-driven company, and Chowdhary's product and technical background will come handy for this role.
Chowdhary is an alumnus of premium colleges such as Stanford University, Columbia University and Hamilton College. Before joining Grammarly in March 2021 he was in charge of leading roles at tech giants such as Google and Amazon. The longest tenure of the CEO was with Google where he worked for 14 years. He left the company in March 2021 after serving as Vice President of Product Management for over a year.
During his two years at Grammarly, Rahul has focused on driving excellence and helped us up-level as a company. He has pushed our thinking and drove the organization forward with clarity, keen judgment, and sound decision-making. Hoover wrote that under Rahul's leadership, we also took a big step forward with our product, increasing quality and introducing solutions to help beyond the revision stage of communication.
He also announced that Noam Lovinsky and Joe Xavier will be Grammarly's new Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer.