Prakash Padariya appointed as Chief Information Security Officer of OYO

Popular Online hotel booking Company OYO has appointed Prakash Padariya as its Chief Information Security Officer of the company. The hotel booking platform, after the appointment in its statement, said: “In his role at OYO, Prakash will helm a security strategy for OYO's systems globally, including regions such as India, SEA (Southeast Asia), Europe, the USA, and the UK.” Prakash Padariya will lead the IT and security team of the company. He will also oversee the usage of data analytics and artificial intelligence to strengthen the cyber security of the group. Prior to this appointment, he was working with the Netherland based online payment company- PayU, in the same capacity. Mr. Padariya will be reporting to the Chief Technology Officer of OYO- Ankit Mathuria. Mr. Padariya after the appointment expressed his gratitude. He in a statement said: ''I am super excited to join OYO at this stage where all of travel is transforming and resurging post COVID-19. I am honoured to be a part of this team and can't wait to start developing solutions to enhance the maturity of all of OYO's products to the next level of security and privacy''. OYO is also going to go public very soon as it plans to launch its Initial Public Offering (IPO).