TECH- LEADERSHIP SEARCH MAGICIAN

2021 is a year full of hopes for start-ups as they look to increase the revenue generation and try to keep their venture on an upward growth trajectory. 2020 was a year full of ups and downs. The lockdown proved to be an obstacle in the growth of these start-ups as the economy slumped and almost everything came to a standstill. After the upliftment of the restrictions and the lockdown itself, things started picking up pace again and there was rapid development for the start-ups not to forget, many new start-ups came to the fore. The start-ups got fresh funding and with those funding one of their main targets was to broaden the employee base and hire in key technology and leadership roles. Edtech, E-commerce, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and Fintech have gained significant scale and are on the lookout for talent who can initiate an even more aggressive growth model.

With companies moving from offline to the online space, technology has become an integral part of the system, and the businesses are dependent on them. Business roadmaps seem to be converging with tech roadmaps. For a CEO to make a decision regarding the business needs to be taken with the Technology head to ensure the effective execution. With business roadmaps being dependent on the technology, CTOs are proving to be key strategic leaders in any organization. There has been a gap in the tech leadership and hiring space for a while now.

THE BEGINNING

Roopa Kumar, Founder of Purple Quarter started her journey in operations. Her first stints were at Mphasis and HSBC and in 2004; she joined First Advantage, a background screening company and was the Assistant General Manager of operations. It was when she co-founded MTS consulting in 2010; she understood the difference between hiring someone for your own company and hiring for a client. She joined Anzy as Head of New Business Initiatives in 2016 where she met Deepak, Co-founder and the CEO of Purple Quarter and with their in sync thought process, like-minded ambitions, they decided to start Purple Quarter. Swiggy was one of Purple Quarter’s biggest clients. She was instrumental in bringing Dale Vaz to Swiggy who was then working for Amazon India as a head of technology and ran Engineering Org at multiple sites with a team of multiple L8s and 800 odd total team size. Dale joined Swiggy as Head of Engineering and Data Science in 2018 and has then gone on to become the CTO of Swiggy establishing its presence in over 550 cities and towns. The valuation of Swiggy has skyrocketed to $3.4 Billion from $730 Million in the said time.