Ola ropes in Lazada's Sundeep Sahni to head new initiatives

NEW DELHI: Ola has appointed Sundeep Sahni as its vice president of new initiatives.

In his previous role, Sahni was the co-founder and managing director of Lazada Indonesia. Lazada is South East Asia's biggest e-commerce company backed by players like Rocket Internet and Temasek Holdings. "Sundeep joins Ola with an extensive experience of about 9 years. He will be part of Ola's core leadership team," a company release stated.

At Lazada, he closed over $100 million of fund raising rounds from reputed European investors. He also closed an exclusive brand partnership with Motorola and Xiaomi.

Bhavish Aggarwal, co-founder and CEO, Ola said, "Sundeep brings with him the unique experience of setting up an ecommerce venture from scratch in a new country. His intuitive knowledge and experience of startups having been on both operational and investment sides in his past roles will be valuable for us."