Ola today announced the appointment of Infosys’ Rajiv Bansal as its Chief Financial Officer. Rajiv has spent over 16 years at Infosys, where he was the CFO and recently transitioned to being an Advisor to the CEO.

Rajiv will be part of Ola’s core leadership team and is expected join the company in January, 2016. Mitesh Shah, who is currently the CFO, will lead Strategic Finance Initiatives as part of Rajiv’s team, going forward, said Ola in a statement.

“His(Rajiv’s) experience of being at the helm of finance for one of India’s most respected companies will help us in adopting best practices and in realising our mission of building mobility for a billion people. I’m looking forward to working with Rajiv as we scale Ola to newer heights in the time to come,” said Bhavish Aggarwal, Co-founder and CEO, Ola