BW Auto World 40 Under 40 Winner: Harsh Saruparia - Revolutionalising Two-wheeler Buying
With over ten years of expertise in the fields of product management, business intelligence/analytics, and data science, Harsh Saruparia, Co-founder & CTO, 1T9 Technology (OTO Capital) founded and built OTO, a leading commerce-enabled finance platform, revolutionalising two-wheeler buying, owning and financing by providing a simplified experience for millions of Indians.
He headed the development of creating a dedicated platform for Electric Vehicles (EVs) which has helped OTO to achieve 19 times growth in the sales of EVs for the last financial year, thereby helping OTO to emerge as an EV flag bearer in the Indian automobile market. Saruparia has previously worked for Fractal analytics, housing.com, CredR, Flexi loans.
He has proficiency in working with cross-functional teams such as business, operations, marketing, and finance to build products and algorithms to integrate, optimise and streamline processes of different departments. He also has a track record of exceptional performance and successful project delivery. He actively looks out for the latest technologies and trends to adopt into the business in order to create a seamless experience for Indian two-wheeler customers.
Saruparia launched the super EMI plan that provides 35 per cent lower EMI than any other lender and introduced the feature offering customer flexibility to upgrade or own the vehicle before the tenure ends.
