This week Surekha Kern joins Snap Inc in a newly created role, as Head of New Business EMEA. She will be based in London, reporting to Sam Bevan, Director of Emerging EMEA. 

Surekha joins with many years of global ad sales experience, most recently as Head of New Business EMEA for Unidays. Prior to this Surekha had roles at MTV, Sunrise Television, and prior to Unidays spent 8 years in senior global brand partnerships roles with Discovery. 

Managing a team across the EMEA region, Surekha will focus on activating Snap’s next generation of partners for Snapchat, and building on recent steep revenue growth. 

Surekha’s new role follows a series of recent senior UK based EMEA appointments at Snap, most recently Amber Sayer who joined as Senior Head of Retail and Ecommerce, and Matt Salmon as Commercial Director. 

Sam Bevan, Director of Emerging EMEA comments, “We are delighted to welcome Surekha to the Snap family. The launch of our New Business team will enable us to better scale and support the onboarding of new partners across the region. Surekha’s depth of knowledge of the commerce landscape will be invaluable as we continue to build out products and solutions that drive real business results”.

Surekha says, “I’m thrilled to join Snap during this exciting time to spearhead the New Business Solutions team. I have long admired Snap as both a Snapchatter and for their approach to working with brands which is focused on building deep partnerships that help businesses to scale. This is an amazing opportunity for me to use my skills and experience to build a rockstar New Business Solutions team to support Snap’s continued growth in EMEA”.