InMobi hires ex-Flipkart employee Ravi Krishnaswamy as its CTO

InMobi, a global media advertising, and discovery platform have appointed former Flipkart employee Ravi Krishnaswamy as the Chief Technology Officer of the company. Krishnaswamy will replace Mohit Saxena, InMobi co-founder who recently moved to the US but continues with the company.

Naveen Tewari, Founder, and CEO said, “We are pleased to welcome Ravi to the InMobi leadership team. His breadth of experience across the mobile industry, the startup ecosystem and his expertise as a technology leader is a successful combination in driving our technology portfolio.”

As the CTO of InMobi, Ravi will lead the company's technology strategy and innovation agenda supporting the organization's vision in big-data and artificial intelligence. His key mandate will include evaluating where the biggest technical opportunities and risks are and helping nurture a culture of innovation within InMobi’s engineering organization.

Krishnaswamy has previously worked with Microsoft for two decades, leading various broad-scoped charters including building Microsoft's next generation cutting-edge cloud OS platform as he led the Azure teams at Microsoft IDC. Ravi also pioneered the strategic evolution of the .NET platform and ecosystem during his tenure leading the .NET framework core charter.