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Uber executive, linked to an old harassment claim, resigns

Amit Singhal is on the board of two Indian start-ups - Paytm and GooQi

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Mike Isaac & Daisuke Wakabayashi | New York Times San Francisco
A little more than a week after Uber faced stinging accusations that it had ignored female employees’ complaints of sexual harassment, the company dismissed the head of its engineering efforts for failing to disclose a sexual harassment claim from his previous job.
 
The executive, Amit Singhal, joined Uber last month after overseeing Google’s search efforts in a 15-year career at that company. He was asked to resign on Monday by Travis Kalanick, Uber’s chief executive.
 
Singhal is on the board of two Indian start-ups — Paytm and GooQi. The former Google engineer is an investor and on the