Zoom nabs Microsoft’s Ricky Kapur as new APAC leader Zoom nabs Microsoft’s Ricky Kapur as new APAC leader In the newly created post, Kapur will report to head of international Abe Smith. Credit: Dreamstime Zoom Video Communications has hired former Microsoft Asia Pacific (APAC) vice president of sales and marketing operations Ricky Kapur as its new head of APAC. In the newly created post, Kapur will report to the video conferencing vendor's head of international, Abe Smith, and will be responsible for defining its go-to-market strategy for key APAC markets including Australia and New Zealand, ASEAN, China, Hong Kong SAR, India, Korea and Taiwan.