Yatra has appointed Chakrapani Gollapali as the chief business officer of Holidays. In his new role, Gollapali will be responsible for the direction and operations and overall business for the Holidays unit of Yatra. Overall Gollapali has over 20 years of experience in technology, mobile and consumer businesses.

Prior to Yatra, he served as the country general manager for Microsoft India, incharge of all of Microsoft's consumer categories including Windows, Office, Windows Phone and Xbox across the retail, online, OEM and operator channels. Before this, Gollapali served at Nokia for 6 years as the general manager of the E-series Smartphones business in India, as well as helped create mobile payments business for Nokia. In his early career, he also founded and ran an internet startup called Office Infinity that offered consumables and supplies space, for three years.