Scaler appoints Tapan Jindal as their Chief Financial Officer
3 min readMumbai, twenty fourth January 2024: Scaler, one in every of India’s fastest-growing tech schooling start-ups, introduced at present the appointment of Tapan Jindal as the chief monetary officer at InterviewBit and Scaler. In his new position, Tapan will assume total accountability for the organisation’s monetary well being and progress.
Tapan’s speedy focus shall be to spearhead company technique and monetary operations. He can even carefully collaborate with present groups to strengthen the general monetary framework and restructure particular methods to arrange the corporate for its subsequent section of progress and obtain profitability.
Abhimanyu Saxena, Co-Founder of InterviewBit & Scaler, mentioned, “At Scaler, we’re dedicated to offering the absolute best tech schooling expertise obtainable to aspiring engineers and software program professionals within the nation. To guarantee we are able to obtain this important nation-building mission, it’s crucial that we work with the brightest minds throughout all enterprise verticals. With that in thoughts, now we have over 1600 individuals who work with us, and all are equally dedicated to our imaginative and prescient assertion. The subsequent few years are very essential in our journey. While now we have created a strong basis with our product choices, we need to strengthen our backside line and attain profitability. Tapan is completely positioned to assist us in our endeavour. We are excited to work with him as we proceed constructing one of the best tech schooling firm to come back out of India.”
With shut to twenty years of expertise, Tapan has labored throughout numerous sectors inside the nation’s monetary trade, together with funding banking and company finance for each massive conglomerates as effectively as new-age start-ups, together with SugarBox Networks (Part of Zee Entertainment Group), Baazi Games, Den Networks and AutomotiveDekho Group, which incorporates Insurance Dekho and Rupyy.
Tapan Jindal, CFO at InterviewBit and Scaler, mentioned, “Education is near my coronary heart, and having run an schooling enterprise early in my profession, I really feel Scaler is my new dwelling. It is an thrilling time to affix the younger model as it continues to make strong progress. I look ahead to constructing momentum and delivering on their progress technique. We will endeavour to strengthen the monetary and governance practices as we work in direction of making a globally admired tech schooling firm out of India.”
The 12 months 2023 noticed Scaler obtain constructive money circulation and had been additionally worthwhile within the JAS (Jul-Aug-Sep) quarter. The intention for the 12 months 2024 is to keep up this over the following few quarters and result in annual profitability. While a number of ed-tech and start-up manufacturers let go of workers and shrunk their present operations, Scaler was in a position to submit such promising progress with out lowering its headcount and rolled out a number of initiatives, such as the GPT-4 powered AI educating assistant that not solely enhanced learner expertise but in addition aided in value effectivity.
Scaler partnered with NSDC and joined the #TalentIndia mission to assist the nation meet its rising demand for Software Development Engineers, Data Scientists, and Machine Learning specialists by means of its distinctive and efficient upskilling packages. Scaler launched Scaler Topics, a gamified free learn-to-code platform that may present high quality technical content material for anybody focused on software-related topics. Scaler additionally launched its formidable undergraduate program, the Scaler School of Technology, early in 2023, and this system noticed phenomenal uptake, with over 54,000 purposes coming in for its first batch. Scaler’s upskilling packages – Scaler Academy and Scaler DSML – additionally noticed important progress, with the model aiding over 30,000 working professionals with their profession objectives.