Star India appoints Varun Narang to head Hotstar's product and tech division Star India has hired Varun Narang to head Hotstar’s product and technology division to scale up its digital operations and mobile platform, reports Livemint. Narang will lead the team to build solutions for the mobile app, content discovery, video playbacks and build native ad platforms for the app. Narang has previously worked with Hulu, Amazon and Xerox in the US. Star India debuted its HotStar service in January this year. In April, the company partnered with technology services giant Accenture to help develop, launch and deliver its on-the-air programming on its video streaming application Hotstar. The video-on-demand application offered all of Star India’s television and sports offerings along with Bollywood & regional movies from other studios. **** Ola appoints Sundeep Sahni as VP of new initiatives Online cab aggregator Ola has appointed Sundeep Sahni as the VP of new initiatives, reports VCCircle. Sahni previously co-founded and was the MD (Indonesia) of the Lazada Group. He worked there for almost 3 years. Prior to that, he was an associate at the Watheeqa Capital Company for over 1.5 years and in the same capacity at Credit Suisse for over 3.5 years as indicated by his LinkedIn profile. Earlier this month, Pallav Singh, the senior VP of operations at Ola, took over as the CEO of TaxiForSure after Arvind Singhal resigned as its CEO. Ola also appointed Arun Sarin as an independent director to its board of directors. Sarin was the CEO…
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