Founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma had then told ET, “Amit is a pioneer in the technology industry.We believe his strong expertise in artificial intelligence and experience in building large, deeply technical teams will be extremely valuable to Paytm. "Singhal had joined Uber five weeks ago and was reporting to its chief executive Travis Kalanick. He also advised the company on its self-driving automobile efforts.Before Uber, Singhal spent 15 years at Google. He handled Google's Search initiatives for 15 years and is known to have reworked search algorithms written by the founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin . He had quit Google in February 2016, saying he wanted to devote time to philanthropy.

Source: Economic Times February 28, 2017 19:49 UTC