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Piramal CTO Saurabh Mittal on financial services innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

The 36,000-square-foot innovation hub will be led by the company’s CTO, Saurabh Mittal, and Markandey Upadhyay, head of business intelligence unit for Piramal. So, we are working on reducing turn-around times for our home loan customers, and instant decisions and disbursements for our unsecured loan customers.

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Transforming IT culture for business success

CIO Business Intelligence

Culture should be mission-driven, and for us, it’s all about driving the business forward through the tools we’re creating.” Abrahamson also changed some of his hiring criteria, bringing on people with product management and human-centered design experience. That became part of the interviewing process as we hired dozens of people.

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Vote for Startup of the Year: Arrived Homes, Lexion, Phaidra, Shipium, WhyLabs

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Legal contracts. Founders : CEO Ryan Frazier and CTO Kenny Cason were previously at Simply Measured. Real estate ownership. Industrial AI. E-commerce fulfillment software. Machine learning monitoring. The five finalists are Arrived Homes; Lexion; Phaidra; Shipium; and WhyLabs.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. Gaurav Sharma becomes group CTO of Poonawalla Fincorp. February 2022. January 2022.

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AI meets M&A: How these former management consultants are upending due diligence

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The idea is to reduce the grunt work of M&A due diligence, creating more time for high-level analysis and human expertise. Wokelo CEO Masson and CTO Nanda experienced both ends of this spectrum in their prior roles. It also offers a secure data room where users can upload files, and a Q&A chat function for directed research.

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‘Convoy Mafia’: Alumni from trucking marketplace company lead new startups in Seattle

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“I attribute the entrepreneurialism of so many alums to the culture and high hiring bar in the early days of the company,” said Ryan Soskin , the 15th employee at Convoy who is now CEO of trucking software platform GoodShip. Former Convoy employees point to several factors that made the company a hub for future entrepreneurs.

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Look who’s Arrived: Tech vets launch Seattle real estate startup to crowdfund rental home investing

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The Arrived team, from left, CEO and co-founder Ryan Frazier, CTO and co-founder Kenny Cason, CFO Joel Mezistrano, and COO and co-founder Alejandro Chouza. Real estate vet Joel Mezistrano is also part of the team as CFO. Arrived Photo). Another tech-fueled real estate startup has arrived on the scene in Seattle. Arrived Graphic).