Indian-Origin Neha Parikh appointed as CEO of crowd-sourced navigation app ‘Waze’

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Indian-American, Neha Parikh, has been appointed as the CEO of Waze, a crowd-sourced GPS navigation app and a subsidiary of tech giant Google.
The 41-year-old Neha replaces Noam Bardin, who stepped down as the CEO in November 2020, after leading the Israeli company for 12 years.
Waze app can give out directions in 56 different languages.
The app was founded in Israel in 2008. It was acquired by Google in 2013 for around USD 1.1 billion (110 crore).