India
Arup Das has been named Chief Technology Officer of Octro Inc.
Octro, a provider of online games such as Teen Patti, Indian Rummy, and Tambola, has appointed Arup Das as its new chief technology officer. He will work out of Octro's Delhi-NCR office, which is owned by private equity firm Sequoia Capital. Octro has a leadership position in the online gaming industry, with almost 200 million users, as well as a strong presence in the Indian leisure and sports activities industry, with a projected user base of more than 700 million in India.
As per Octro, the online gaming market in India is predicted to be valued Rs 29,000 crore, with an estimated user base of 650 million people, according to a KPMG report. According to AIG, 76 percent of all gamers believe that gaming develops strong analytical ability because it is required to determine the best technique to win a game, as according Octro.
Das is an accomplished technologist with an MBA from Wharton Business School and an MS in computer vision and image processing from the University of Calgary in Canada. Cisco, Nucleus Software, Aristocrat, and Goals101 were among his prior employers.
"We are very excited to have Arup on board with us as our CTO. Octro has grown over the last many years and as we embark on our next phase of growth, I am confident that Arup, with his experience and expertise, will be able to contribute to Octro’s growth and enable us to take Octro to the next level. We look forward to working closely with Arup and achieving bigger goals while creating scalable leisure options for the world at large,” Octro Inc's CEO, Saurabh Aggarwal, commented on the appointment.
Arup is a skilled business executive with over 23 years of expertise in ERP, Data Science/Data Engineering, Cloud Computing, and other digital products. Arup was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Goals101 AI, a 5-year-old VC-backed fintech firm, went on to join Octro. He was previously a Senior Director, R&D at Aristocrat Technologies, where he oversaw a 225-person engineering and product team spread across the United States, Europe, and India. Apart from that, Arup has collaborated with a number of notable software businesses, including Cisco and Nucleus Software.
Arup holds an MBA (Palmer Scholar) from the Wharton Business School in the United States, an MS in Computer Vision / Image Processing from the University of Calgary in Canada, and a BE in Computer Science from Jadavpur University in India. He was also a founding volunteer of Cricinfo, and as a volunteer, he has covered international cricket matches.
"The online gaming space has always been exciting to me, and with the recent growth it has witnessed in India & globally, I am even more ecstatic to have an opportunity to work with Octro Inc, a pioneer in this space. I am looking forward to adding value to the organization and be an integral part of Octro’s journey in becoming one of the leading gaming companies worldwide,” delighted Arup Das, CTO of Octro Inc's, stated upon his appointment.
Octro Inc.'s games, such as Teen Patti, Play Rummy, or Soccer Battles, have been played almost 150 billion times to date, and Sequoia Capital as an investor has helped Octro attain a leadership position in the online gaming field and a strong presence in the online gaming industry. As a result, it continues India's fastest-growing and largest mobile gaming company.
App Annie, the leading app market analytics organisation, has ranked Octro Inc, India's leading and fastest-growing smartphone gaming company, No. 1 in terms of player turnover. The increased popularity of online games has given the gaming industry a major boost. According to KPMG, the internet gaming market is expected to reach 290 billion dollars in revenue by 2020, with 650 million users, and a recent AIGF analysis revealed that 76 percent of all gamers believe that gaming helps them develop strong analytical skills, which are required to determine the best way to win a game.
You will find Arup Das on LinkedIn here.