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Abhijit Bose Quits Ezetap to Head Whatsapp’s India Operations

22Nov By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Abhijit Bose Quits Ezetap to Head Whatsapp’s India Operations

The co-founder and CEO of merchants payments platform Ezetap, Abhijit Bose is quitting the company to head Facebook-owned WhatsApp's operations in India. India has been stated as Whatsapp’s largest market in terms of users. With this appointment, Bose will be the first-ever country head of the messaging app and he will join the company in early 2019. With his resignation on the other hand, Ezetap CFO Byas Nambisan will replace Bose at Ezetap as interim CEO. Following the appointment, the latter will be responsible for building WhatsApp's first full country team outside of California, based in Gurgaon. This team will focus on helping small and large businesses connect with their customers. “WhatsApp is deeply committed to India and we are excited to keep building products that help p...

Avaya Appoints Gaurav Passi as the President of its Cloud

13Nov By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Avaya Appoints Gaurav Passi as the President of its Cloud

Communications technology company Avaya has appointed Gaurav Passi as the President of Avaya Cloud. Passi has an experience of cloud industry of more than a decade and will report to the chief executive officer, Jim Chirico, Avaya. He will be responsible for boosting growth of company’s cloud-based solutions and driving continued momentum to grow market share in UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service) and CCaaS (Contact Center as a Service) worldwide. He most recently served as Executive Vice President, Products and Technology at Five9, where he spearheaded development, modernization and growth of the firm’s contact center cloud offering. Prior to this, Passi has held senior leadership positions açross companies such as Deutsche Telekom Hosted Business Services, Amdocs Inc. an...

Indian Online Matrimony Firm Appoints Former Aircel Exec Sankara Narayanan

5Nov By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Indian Online Matrimony Firm Appoints Former Aircel Exec Sankara Narayanan

The popular India matchmaking and wedding services firm Matrimony.com has announced a new appointment where former Aircel top executive Sankara Narayanan will join the company as its Chief Operating Officer. He will be responsible to lead the matchmaking vertical of the company. Narayanan is a Stanford University graduate and has a commendable business experience from leading teams in diverse industries including telecom and finance sectors. He has also been heading National Operations at Aircel before his appointment as COO with Matrimony.com. Prior to this, he was Head of Finance & Commercial, of Ranbaxy Guangzhou China Ltd, and Head Finance & Commercial - West Africa for Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited. Murugavel Janakiraman, the CEO at Matrimony.com said, “We’re pleased t...

Lyft Brings on Board Former United Airlines Chief Commercial Officer

18Oct By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Lyft Brings on Board Former United Airlines Chief Commercial Officer

Ride hailing major Lyft has appointed former United Airlines Chief Commercial Officer Julia Haywood to serve as its VP of Strategy. The basic plan is for her to own Lyft’s market expansion efforts and accelerate growth. “I’m excited to see Julia make a huge impact here at Lyft,” stated Jon McNeill, chief operating officer at Lyft. “We are in a period of hypergrowth, and as the complexity of our product offerings and organization increases, Julia’s hands-on approach to tackling challenges is just what we need to best-position us for the future.” The company is also expected to launch its initial public offering (IPO) an for this it has selected JPMorgan Chase & Co. as the lead underwriter along with Credit Suisse Group and Jeffries Group. It has also been stated that the company’s ...

Tata Starbucks Appoints Navin Gurnaney as the New CEO

3Oct By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Tata Starbucks Appoints Navin Gurnaney as the New CEO

Tata Starbucks, a joint venture between Tata Group and Starbucks has appointed Navin Gurnaney as its chief executive officer effective January 1, 2019. The new CEO will be replacing Sumitro Ghosh who will return to the US parent company after a three-year stint. The company stated that Gurnaney will be responsible for driving Tata Starbucks overall strategic direction and vision in India. Also, it will help in strengthening Starbucks business growth. “We are pleased to welcome Navin Gurnaney, who has a proven track record of success within Starbucks and is a business leader with the ability to bring people together, as Tata Starbucks continues to innovate and position itself for long-term growth in the India market,” said John Culver, group president, International, Channel Developme...

Zomato Appoints Thomas Phillippe as its General Counsel

19Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Zomato Appoints Thomas Phillippe as its General Counsel

The restaurant discovery and food delivery platform Zomato has been taking various efforts to keep up with the growth phase. And now, the company has taken on board Thomas Phillippe as its General Counsel. Prior to Zomato, Thomas was earlier a partner at legal firm Khaitan & Co. This new appointment marks the first such role at Zomato which has previously been working with legal firm AZB & Partners as its advisor. The new General Counsel has over 13 years of experience as a private practice lawyer in both domestic and cross-border M&A, private equity, and venture capital transactions. This may be a positive point for the foodtech firm. From the past few years, Thomas has played a valuable and important role at e-commerce and financial technology companies in advising ...