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Business Standard
30-06-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
MobiKwik names Saurabh Dwivedi CTO, promotes Dhruv Wadhera to SVP
Fintech firm MobiKwik has appointed Saurabh Dwivedi as the company's Chief Technology Officer (CTO), tasked with leading engineering across payments, financial services, core platform, infrastructure, and information security (InfoSec). The company also announced the promotion of Dhruv Wadhera to Senior Vice President (SVP) for offline payments. Wadhera has headed the firm's offline payments vertical since June 2023. The CTO appointment comes as the Gurugram-based company intensifies its focus on artificial intelligence. 'As we scale new heights, it's vital we have strong leaders at the helm of both technology and distribution. Both Saurabh and Dhruv have demonstrated the acumen to serve our users with excellence, build with foresight, and lead with integrity,' said Bipin Preet Singh, Co-founder, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), MobiKwik. Dwivedi has previously worked with companies such as MakeMyTrip, American Express (India), and Satyam Computer Services. 'My focus will be on building a unified yet flexible infrastructure that serves diverse businesses at different stages of maturity, while maintaining reliability and innovation for our users,' he said. Wadhera earlier worked with food aggregator platform Zomato as Vice-President – Sales Director with complete P&L ownership. 'The offline payments space presents an enormous opportunity to empower SMEs and MSMEs across Bharat who are at the heart of India's digital transformation journey,' he said.
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Elon Musk Puts Out Call for ‘Caring' Applicants to Slash Government Spending
The Department of Government Efficiency, Donald Trump's commission aiming to slash federal spending, says it's looking for 'caring people' to join its ranks. The Elon Musk-led DOGE said in an X post that it is 'looking for world-class talent to work long hours identifying/eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse.' It added that the vacancies are for 'full-time, salaried positions for software engineers, InfoSec engineers, financial analysts, HR professionals, and, in general, all competent/caring people.' The post included a link to an application page where candidates are invited to provide details of their 'exceptional ability.' The page also includes a disclaimer explaining that applicants are applying for an 'in-office, full-time opportunity' based in Washington, D.C., and that only U.S. citizens are eligible for consideration. X users responding to the post variously questioned why the jobs are only open to citizens, asked about what pay they can expect in return for working long hours, and argued that allowing staffers to work remotely would be more efficient. The latest recruitment post comes after DOGE said in November that it was seeking 'super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting,' enticing candidates with the promise that 'Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants.' That would be Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the former Republican presidential candidate who has since dropped out of co-leading the venture ahead of an expected run for governor of Ohio. His departure from DOGE came after a 'deep philosophical rift' developed between Ramaswamy and Musk about how the group should operate, according to The Washington Post. The organization—which shares its name with a cryptocurrency created as a joke and subsequently championed by Musk—was formally announced by Trump in November. The president said it would 'pave the way' for his administration to 'dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies.' Musk also confidently asserted during Trump's campaign that DOGE would lead to 'at least $2 trillion' in cuts from the federal budget, though he later tempered his claim by calling that a 'best-case outcome.' Trump established DOGE in an executive order last week that renamed the U.S. Digital Service as the 'U.S. DOGE Service.' It also did not mention dramatic cuts to federal spending, instead tasking the group with 'modernizing federal technology and software.'
