Google’s Neal Mohan Expected To Move To Dropbox To Head Product

[AditiArora]

Google vet Neal Mohan is expected to leave the search giant to join Dropbox as its head of product.Re/code had pinged Dropbox and Mohan about rumors of such a move weeks ago. Sources close to the situation said it was now happening, although a spokesperson for the San Francisco file storage company declined to comment.Rumors of Mohan leaving have circulated for the last year, including moving to such companies as Twitter for big bucks (various reports said that Google forked over $100 million in stock to keep Mohan at one one point).

[Priyanka]

Mohan has been an important player over the years in Google’s efforts in the display advertising space, coming to the company when it bought DoubleClick. He worked under Susan Wojcicki, who moved over to run YouTube last year.

[Neha Chandaliya]

Mohan would be taking over at Dropbox at an interesting time, as it seeks to expand its enterprise business and also mulls its next funding options — sources said a new round of fundraising is likely, ahead of an eventual IPO. That said, it faces intense competition all over from Google to Amazon to Box.