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Ebix Travels taps Arun Batra as new managing director
MUMBAI: Ebix Group has appointed Arun Batra as managing director of Ebix Travels, signalling a renewed push to strengthen leadership across its travel and mobility businesses.
Batra will oversee Ebix’s travel operations across domestic and international markets, taking charge of performance, governance, and long-term value creation. His role includes aligning Ebix’s travel businesses, deepening partnerships, and refining offerings to create a more integrated, execution-driven platform.
With over 30 years of leadership experience spanning fintech, telecommunications, retail, media, and services, Batra has a proven track record of scaling businesses, building distribution networks, and leading large-scale operations. He has previously held senior and CXO roles at HCL, Vodafone, Brightstar Corporation in the USA, Reliance Infocomm, Zee Networks, and Matrix Cellular.
Commenting on the announcement, Ebix group chairman of Eraaya Lifespaces Limited Vikas Garg, “Ebix Travels is a strategic growth engine for the Group. Arun’s expertise strengthens leadership accountability and decision-making as we build a more integrated and execution-focused travel business.”
Batra added, “As the travel industry evolves, building strong teams and delivering customer-focused solutions will be key to sustained growth. I look forward to working with our partners and teams to drive innovation, strengthen execution, and create long-term value for customers and the organisation.”
Ebix Travels spans corporate travel management, Mice, luxury rail journeys, destination management, and technology-enabled travel platforms. Serving diverse customer segments across geographies, it remains a central pillar of Ebix Group’s travel and mobility strategy.
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Beep App launches Gen-Z career platform, clocks 30,000 plus placements
Pune startup turns scrolling into career action with learn-explore-earn model
PUNE: Beep App has rolled out its newly positioned career-focused app aimed at Gen-Z users, as it looks to bridge what it calls a growing gap between exposure and employability among young Indians.
Formerly known as EventBeep, the platform is built around a simple but timely idea: turning everyday scrolling into meaningful career action. The app targets students and early professionals, offering a unified space to explore career options, learn relevant skills and access internships and job opportunities.
At a time when short-form content dominates screen time, Beep is attempting to flip the script by embedding structured, career-oriented insights within a familiar scroll-based interface. The idea is not to disrupt user behaviour, but to redirect it.
The platform spans a wide range of fields, including artificial intelligence, product management, design and data analytics. It provides users with insights into role expectations, required skills and step-by-step career pathways, supported by inputs from industry practitioners.
At the heart of the offering is a “learn, explore, earn” model that integrates discovery, skill-building and hiring into one ecosystem. The company says this closed-loop approach is already gaining traction, with over 30,000 placements facilitated so far.
“Gen-Z does not lack ambition; what they often lack is structured direction,” said Beep App founder and CEO Saurabh Mangrulkar. “The Beep App is designed to organise that exposure into actionable pathways so users can move from intent to execution with greater confidence.”
The launch comes amid a broader shift in India’s job market towards skills-first hiring, where practical experience and demonstrable capabilities are increasingly valued alongside academic qualifications.
Founded in 2021, Beep App has grown steadily within the student ecosystem, connecting over 6.5 million users with opportunities across more than 1,500 colleges and 7,800 hiring companies.
Looking ahead, the company plans to deepen its content across emerging sectors, expand its hiring network and build more personalised career pathways tailored to user behaviour.
As Gen-Z continues to navigate a complex and fast-evolving job market, platforms that can turn curiosity into clarity may well shape the next wave of career discovery.
