Paytm adds Ruchi Sanghvi, Neeraj Arora, Naveen Tewari to board

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jun 24 2015 | 3:07 PM IST
Mobile payments platform provider Paytm has roped in Ruchi Sanghvi, Facebook's first woman engineer, ex-WhatsApp global business head Neeraj Arora and InMobi founder Naveen Tewari to its Board.
"Ruchi, Neeraj and Naveen all come with tremendous internet commerce experience with highly renowned brands. We look forward to the strategic contribution they will make towards Paytm's exciting journey ahead," Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma said in a statement.
Sanghvi co-created and managed the News Feed feature on Facebook, while Arora is a mergers-and-acquisitions veteran who joined WhatsApp from Google in 2011, where he largely managed the business side of the mobile-messaging startup.
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gojavas appoints Sobhit Jain as General Manager * Logistics firm gojavas today announced the appointment of Sobhit Jain as its General Manager.
"We have expanded our network in the last quarter. We are strengthening our leadership team to consolidate our recent growth and Sobhit's addition in the team is in line with that objective," the company said in a statement.
It added that the firm will hire more key resources for senior leadership roles in the coming months.
Jain joins gojavas from Accenture strategy where he was a Principal in the supply chain consulting practice. Previously, he has also worked with Glaxo Smith Kline Consumer Healthcare and Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals.
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HCL Tech, Infor ink partnership
* Tech company Infor has partnered with country's fourth largest IT services firm, HCL Technologies to expand implementation, development and support resources for its customers across geographies.
As part of the alliance, HCL Technologies will build a practice to support key Infor products and dedicate about 500 employees to work exclusively with the Infor ecosystem, Infor said in a statement.
This will promote faster and more effective responses to market opportunities, serving as a catalyst for growth for both organisations, it added.
No financial details were disclosed.
Infor and HCL will also form integrated development and support teams to enhance implementation and maintenance capabilities.
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First Published: Jun 24 2015 | 3:07 PM IST

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