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  • Witzeal onboards Naveen Goswami as head of innovation

    Witzeal onboards Naveen Goswami as head of innovation

    Mumbai: Witzeal, a new age gaming technology company on Tuesday announced the appointment of Naveen Goswami as head of innovation. With this appointment, Witzeal is determined to strengthen its leadership team and bring about revolutionising change and innovation to the players of Big Cash, thereby providing a remarkable gaming experience to its user base.  

    “Innovation is an imperative module for growth of any company, and we are constantly working towards honing our innovation skill and team,” said Witzeal CEO and founder Ankur Singh. “We are delighted to welcome Naveen on board and look forward to taking Witzeal to greater heights with his expertise and knowledge. His extensive experience in establishing technologies and various teams in different organisations will contribute to the quality of our services and the overall zeal of the team,”

    In this role,Goswami will play a pivotal role in driving new product innovation and development at Witzeal with an aim to bring a qualitative difference to Witzeal’s gaming platform over the years of growth to come. Additionally, he shall be responsible to oversee and implement changes in approaches, methods, products, and processes to enhance competitiveness and improve overall gaming experience, said the statement. 

    The gaming industry in India is growing at an exponential rate and is estimated to reach $3.9 billion by 2025, making it one of the most profitable sectors in the country. Witzeal has and continues to focus on innovation to foster a holistic growth in this sunrise sector and Goswami’s expertise will help the brand to cater to a wider ecosystem, said the company. 

    Goswami is a visionary technology leader and a strategist with over 18 years of experience with proficiency in identifying new revenue enhancement initiatives, designing customer experience journeys. His technical area of expertise is microservices, cloud computing, security, infrastructure automation, auto scaling, virtualisation, disaster recovery, monitoring and management. He has a diverse background in technology, having worked with companies such as ShepHertz, VMware, Digital River, Ericsson, and others on ideation, design, implementation, and deployment of large products on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure to centralise massive volumes of data for analytic purposes and to migrate Data Warehouses to the cloud.

    “In today’s booming online gaming sector, creative use of technology and data can work wonders. I’m excited to be able to put my skills to the test by managing the product Innovation team and securing Big Cash’s and its players’ rapid growth,” stated Naveen Goswami on his new role.

  • Wow appoints Nikita Jaswaney as head of innovation

    Wow appoints Nikita Jaswaney as head of innovation

    Mumbai: Personal care brand Wow Skin Science has announced the appointment of Nikita Jaswaney as head of innovation, in order to strengthen its senior team.

    In this role, Jaswaney will be at the helm of product innovation and development for Wow Skin Science, Wow Life Science, and Body Cupid. She will also be responsible for leading the launch of new brands & strategic brand mixes under the parent company, Body Cupid Pvt Ltd, said the company in a statement.

    “I am pleased to welcome Nikita Jaswaney to the Wow family,” said Body Cupid Pvt Ltd co-CEO Manish Chowdhary. “An expert at creating innovative product mixes and strategic brand development plans, Nikita brings along with her the experiences that will help us widen our thought processes and have a very focused outreach to reach our goals and objectives for 2022 and ahead.”

    Jaswaney has vast experience in product innovation and category development across global personal care brands. With more than a decade of experience in the beauty, grooming and personal care segments both globally and in India with legacy brands and industry leaders such as Unilever and L’oreal, her core competencies are in brand innovation, deep consumer insight-led product development, and strategic brand communication.

    In her earlier stints, Jaswaney led many successful new-format launches and renovations in hair-care and makeup. On her last international project on innovation and marketing communication with Garnier Hair Color she launched the disruptive Garnier Men five-minute shampoo color in South Asia and global emerging markets.

    “Wow is a super brand, born in India, born in digital and native to today’s consumers across geographies. The pace and action-led culture of innovation and consumer focus of the company are the main reasons I find this role challenging and exciting,” stated Nikita Jaswaney on her role. “Leading the team in this new world where legacy brands are kept fit on the ground with active competition from agile and super innovative D2C brands like WOW. Consumer insights and the velocity of translating those insights into exciting brands drive today’s beauty and personal care spaces and I am looking forward to driving those disruptive strategies at Wow.”