What Happened?
Chicago, IL-based Groupon Resigned Sridatta Viswanath as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) is a global leader of local commerce and the place you start when you want to buy just about anything, anytime, anywhere. By leveraging the company`s global relationships and scale, Groupon offers consumers a vast marketplace of unbeatable deals all over the world. Shoppers discover the best a city has to offer on the web or on mobile with Groupon Local, enjoy vacations with Groupon Getaways, and find a curated selection of electronics, fashion, home furnishings and more with Groupon Goods. Groupon is redefining how traditional small businesses attract, retain and interact with customers by providing merchants with a suite of products and services, including customizable deal campaigns, credit card payment processing capabilities, and point-of-sale solutions that help businesses grow and operate more effectively.
About the Person
Sridatta Viswanath, also known as Sri, has been the Chief Technology Officer at Groupon, Inc., since October 2014 and has been its Senior Vice President of Engineering since October 16, 2015. Mr. Viswanath served as its Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations since April 9, 2013. Mr. Viswanath served as the Vice President of Engineering at Ning, Inc. and managed the application development, platform engineering, and operations teams responsible for innovating and scaling the Ning Platform. He joined Groupon from VMWare, where he served as Vice President of Research and Development for Mobile Computing. He served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Glam Media and General Manager of its publisher products group. Prior to Ning, Mr. Viswanath served engineering leadership roles at Sun Microsystems. He also served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Ning, Inc., and was instrumental in that Ning`s acquisition by Glam. He served at Sun Microsystems where he led development of a number of very successful open-source and business-to-business products. At Sun, he managed the development team responsible for the GlassFish v2 Application Server product. Mr. Viswanath holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Clemson and a Management degree from Stanford Business School.
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