Category: Movers and Shakers

The full-stack fleet-tech startup, LocoNav announced the appointment of Samit Srivastava (ex-Jubilant Food Works, Jubilant Life Sciences, HealthKart, Perfetti Van Melle) as CEO – SaaS Global and Chief Business Officer, and Ashish Chawla (ex-OYO) as Head of Strategy. In line with its aggressive expansion and strategic plans and post successful Series B fundraising, LocoNav brings these industry experts on board to realize its vision of democratizing fleet-tech in emerging and high-growth markets, across the globe. The company also recently announced the appointment of Anjali Joshi, former Google VP-Product Management, to its Board of Directors.…

SunTec Business Solutions announced the appointment of Michael (Mike) Yesudas as Chief Technology Officer.   Mike will be part of the company’s leadership team and will be based out of the USA. He will drive and head the technology and engineering functions, including platform engineering, product engineering, and release engineering teams. He will particularly focus on the development of the company’s next-gen, platform that will seamlessly integrate with third-party APIs and is built with a focus on architectural excellence, to provide flexibility and extensibility for an open banking environment.   On his appointment, Nanda…

Newgen Software on Friday announced the elevation of senior vice president Virender Jeet as the company’s new chief executive officer. Jeet has been with Newgen since its inception in 1992.   He has been closely associated with the complete lifecycle of product development, sales and marketing, patents, and various other strategic functions at Newgen, thereby significantly contributing to the business growth in the last more than 29 years, the statement said.   We are going through exciting times with many new growth opportunities ahead of us. Jeet and Tarun have been integral to…

Vijay Subramaniam has stepped down as the Director and head of content at Amazon Prime Video India. Subramaniam joined Prime Video in June 2017 and was instrumental in stitching content deals with major studios and production houses, giving Prime Video an edge over rival Netflix.   Gaurav Gandhi ,Director and Country Manager will take over the lead role in taking Prime Video in India across all teams. We are grateful to him for his valuable contributions over the last four years,” an Amazon Prime Video spokesperson told.   India is one of the largest markets…

The micro blogging platform, Koo has appointed Phaneesh Gururaj as the company’s President – Technology. He will spearhead the engineering and innovation team at the company. In order to give shape and direction to creating a robust technology platform from India, for India, Koo has put together a best-in-class engineering team who will work closely with Phaneesh.   joining Koo, Phaneesh was associated with redBus where he was responsible to head Engineering and Product teams.   Phaneesh will be accompanied by Badri Narayan – VP Engineering from Google, Pavan Kunchapu – VP & Head Mobile…

QuEST Global, a global product engineering and lifecycle services company, announced the appointment of Yumi Clevenger-Lee as global Chief Marketing Officer. Yumi will be responsible for marketing strategy, brand positioning, advertising, and corporate communications to build the QuEST brand across geographic regions, industry verticals, and services. She will be based out of Connecticut, USA, and will report directly to Ajit Prabhu, Chairman & CEO, QuEST Global.   A marketing veteran, Clevenger-Lee joins QuEST Global with 17 years of experience in consumer-packaged goods. Her vast marketing experience includes new product innovation, reinventing brands through…

The satellite-based narrowband IoT solutions provider, Skylo announced that Dr. Jai Menon has joined the company’s leadership team as CIO.   In this crucial role, Jai will lead the company’s supporting technology efforts for scaling its service, including its Order Management System, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Information Technology (IT) support, business, and operations support systems (BSS/OSS), network, infrastructure, and security. Please find attached the press release for your reference.   Skylo CEO and co-founder, Parth Trivedi, commented on the appointment, “Jai’s experience in scaling businesses backed by a service promise and his unparalleled global experience…

STL has announced the appointment of Paul Atkinson as the Chief Executive Officer for its Optical Networking Business. Paul’s appointment is in line with the widened portfolio and the increased global reach of STL’s Optical business.   With its core focus of Enabling Digital Transformation at the Edge, STL has been delivering industry-leading optical solutions for telcos, cloud companies, governments and enterprises globally. The world is witnessing concurrent network build cycles of 5G, FTTx and Rural Broadband and optical solutions will be at the heart of these. To cater to these mega-trends, STL…

Poonawalla Fincorp Limited (Formerly Magma Fincorp Limited) today announced the joining of Gaurav Sharma as its Group Chief Technology Officer (Group CTO). Gaurav will lead and manage the technology initiatives for the group and further solidify the group’s commitment of creating a world class digital technology based platform for financial services.   Gaurav is a Mechanical Engineer from IIT (Roorkee) and has successfully led technology and its applications to create new business opportunities and solve real world problems. He comes with over 25 years of rich experience in driving transformation across various industry domains. He…

STL [NSE: STLTECH], an industry-leading integrator of digital networks, announces the appointment of Paul Atkinson as the Chief Executive Officer for its Optical Networking Business. Paul’s appointment is in line with the widened portfolio and the increased global reach of STL’s Optical business.   With its core focus of Enabling Digital Transformation at the Edge, STL has been delivering industry-leading optical solutions for telcos, cloud companies, governments and enterprises globally. The world is witnessing concurrent network build cycles of 5G, FTTx and Rural Broadband and optical solutions will be at the heart of…