Ola, the ride-sharing service that rivals Uber in India, has hired a new COO.
Vishal Kaul has joined the company from Pepsi, where he was most recently GM for Thailand, Myanmar and Laos. Ola’s first hire, Pranay Jivrajka, previously occupied the COO role but now he has been “elevated” to a new position, ‘Founding Partner.’
Kaul spent 18 years with Pepsi, this is his first job at a tech company. He will be charged with running every day operations and expanding the 100-plus cities that its service is currently active in.
Jivrajka refuted media reports that he is on his way out of Ola. In an official announcement, the company said his new role would focus on “key strategic initiatives,” which he has been unofficially carrying out in recent times.
