BankBazaar, a leading financial website, has appointed the former general manager of Microsoft-Cortana, Murari Sridharan, as its chief technology officer (CTO).
Adhil Shetty, BankBazaar co-founder and CEO, said Murari will lead the technology initiatives by BankBazaar.com such as the paperless application process to the next level.
"We have a fantastic team of people who have achieved path-breaking successes. At this point, we were looking for a leader who could give direction to our efforts better and help us go that extra mile. With his rich background of developing and implementing crucial high-performance initiatives successfully and on tight deadlines, Murari fits the bill perfectly," Shetty added.
Prior to joining BankBazaar.com, Murari was with Microsoft for the past 12 years. Most recently, he ran the engineering team that launched Cortana, Microsoft’s digital assistant challenger to Apple's Siri.
"Work is a huge part of my life and I intend to have fun building products. The leadership and the team here is world class. This is my main reason to join BankBazaar as the people and problem space are awesome," Murari said of his new role at BankBazaar.
Murari has a PhD from the Iowa State University, and has 12 patents at Microsoft. In the past, Murari has chaired two global internet standards group, which have, among other things, set the global standard for TCP’s congestion control mechanism that enables proper functioning of the internet.
BankBazaar generated a funding of $60 million in its C-series funding led by Amazon.
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