BetterPlace appoints Ved Antani as chief product and technology officer

Workforce management company BetterPlace has appointed Ved Antani as its chief product and technology officer. He will lead the company's efforts to become an artificial intelligence-optimised full-stack workforce management software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. “At BetterPlace, Ved would be leading the entire tech team and helping the company go through a 360-degree AI revitalisation,” BetterPlace’s statement said. 

With the current capabilities, the company has been able to help enterprises cut costs by 30% and increase productivity by 70%, said Pravin Agarwala, co-founder and group chief executive officer. He also added that the company now wants to help enterprises ‘see productivity gains they have never seen before’.

“To achieve this we wanted to onboard someone who not only had the technical expertise to help us through this journey but has also experimented their methods to achieve significant scale. Ved’s extensive experience in large-scale SaaS and e-commerce companies gives him a unique edge in not only understanding how platform economies work but also knowing the nitty gritty of using SaaS to achieve scale. I am excited to have him on board as an integral part of our journey.”

Before joining BetterPlac, Antani was the general manager and vice president of engineering and product at Twilio, a company that builds communication application programming interfaces (APIs). Before that he also worked with the e-commerce platform Myntra as the vice president, specialising in fraud detection and prevention. 

“With the advent of AI, BetterPlace’s transformative tech stack could become the most impactful tech stack of the decade. This potential is what excites me and I look forward to working with the wonderful team and being part of their vision of unleashing the potential of the global workforce,” Antani.

In May, BetterPlace announced its partnership with Microsoft to bring AI and analytics into its tech stack to offer more value to enterprise customers.