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Knowlarity grows Regional Team
said, ‘It gives us immense pleasure
to welcome Ajay on board. He
is one of the most dynamic and
respected leaders in the Indian
technological sphere. He will help
Knowlarity cement its leadership in
the cloud communications industry.
With his leadership, we will establish
technology as the fulcrum of
Knowlarity’s operations.’
The company is also launching a
tech blog, engineering.knowlarity.
com. The blog will feature expert
opinions, insights, stories and
experiences from Knowlarity’s
engineering, design and product
teams. Ajay’s writings will be a great
addition to this blog, as these are
already quire popular, and are read
and followed by young professionals
as well as industry veterans.
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nowlarity, one of the largest
providers of cloud-based
communications solutions to
businesses in south-east Asia and
Middle Eastern markets, has recently
appointed Ajay Shrivastava as its
Chief Technology Officer. Before
joining Knowlarity, Ajay was the
Head of Technology at OYO Rooms,
a large branded network of hotels.
Ajay has also been a technical leader
in start-ups, as well as an established
global leader working with the
likes of Intel, Adobe, Microsoft,
Expedia, SlideShare, LinkedIn
and OYO. Considered a veritable
tech wizard, he specialises in the
high-performance execution of
technology and will be bringing this
prowess on board at Knowlarity to
further bolster its tech infrastructure.
Ajay’s addition to the highly
specialised and innovative
team at Knowlarity will help the
company deliver the best cloud
communication solutions across
the Middle East, Africa and other
emerging markets across Asia.
At OYO, Ajay spearheaded the
seeding and growing of OYO’s
technology and team from scratch.
He headed technology for the
company during the phase in which
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AJAY SHRIVASTAVA
Chief Technology Officer, Knowlarity
OYO grew exponentially from four to
200 cities, from a handful of hotels
to 7,000+ hotels, and from a few
employees to 2,500 employees across
India. Having diverse experience in
building brands from the ground up
to working with some of the largest
companies in the world, Ajay has an
instinct for identifying the strategy
to apply at what stage of a company
and how it should evolve with the
growth of the venture.
Commenting on the appointment,
Knowlarity’s CEO, Ambarish Gupta
Expressing his happiness with
the appointment, Ajay added,
‘It gives me great pleasure to
join the thriving workspace
of Knowlarity, which is doing
seminal work in the cloud and
business communications arena.
I always enjoy working with
fast-growing start-ups as it gives
me ample opportunities as well
as operational freedom to build
awesome products, technology
and organisations. I hope to create
something unique and disruptive
together with the passionate team
at Knowlarity.’
Knowlarity’s vision to help
business grow with effective use
of technology has found an able
commander in Ajay, who has been
a thought leader and inventor
of several engineering execution
philosophies such as Solver Teams
and Minimum Viable Technology
(MVT). Ajay is a 2005 graduate
from the International Institute
of Information Technology (IIIT)
in Bangalore.
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