Hari Ravichandran and Sujay Jaswa / Hari Ravichandran and Sujay Jaswa via LinkedIn
Boston-based, AI-powered online safety solutions company Aura has announced that Indian American tech leaders Hari Ravichandran and Sujay Jaswa will lead the company after its acquisition of Australia-based tech company Qoria.
Ravichandran, who was previously the founder and CEO of Aura, will now serve as the CEO of the combined brand. Jaswa has also been roped in to stay on as the chairman of Aura’s board of directors.
The tech founder is an engineer by training and has founded successful businesses focused on technology-enabled services and web security.
He was previously the founder and CEO of Endurance International Group, a publicly traded company that he built from a startup to a global hosting and email marketing company with an enterprise value of approximately $3.5 billion and more than 3,500 employees worldwide.
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Named in Forbes magazine’s Most Powerful CEOs 40 and Under for 2014 and 2015, Ravichandran holds degrees in computer engineering from Mississippi State and in electrical engineering from Stanford. He also holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Additionally, he is also passionate about community and established the Ravichandran Foundation, which supports various philanthropic organizations that are focused on health, education and poverty alleviation, including CURE (Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy), Artists for Peace and Justice, and Akshaya Patra in India.
Jaswa, on the other hand, is founder and managing partner at WndrCo Ventures. Before starting WndrCo, he served as Dropbox’s first executive, who created and led the company’s business and financial operations.
He studied economics at Princeton University and business administration at Harvard.
Jaswa, apart from being on the company’s board, was also an investor at Aura through his holding company, WndrCo.
As part of the merger, Hari Ravichandran and Jaswa’s WndrCo will invest an additional $25 million into the company, as a reflection of confidence in the combination of these two companies and their desire to provide incremental strength to the combined group’s balance sheet.
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