Piramal Capital and Housing Finance, a subsidiary of Piramal Enterprises, announced the appointment of Amazon India executive Saurabh Mittal as chief technology officer (CTO) of its Retail Finance business.
Saurabh Mittal will lead technology strategy towards building a technology and artificial intelligence (AI)-led lending business. He will also be responsible for building a robust engineering team focused on developing and managing technology for both customer and partner-facing business platforms of Piramal Retail Finance.
At Amazon India, Saurabh Mittal led a team that engineered software systems for one of its fulfilment channels.
Earlier, he was CTO at Medlife, where he played an instrumental role in defining, developing and evolving the company’s product portfolio, and enabling business growth from scratch to a revenue of over $100 million.
Before joining Medlife, Saurabh Mittal headed the server development group at Nokia Life, a Value Added Services (VAS) division of Nokia.
He also held entrepreneurial roles at various start-ups where he built VAS for telecom operators.
Saurabh holds a Master of Technology (M.Tech) Degree and Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Electrical Engineering under the Dual Degree Program from IIT Bombay.
