LeEco hires top Qualcomm exec Jaiteerth Patwari to head R&D at LeMall

Chinese internet and technology conglomerate LeEco on Monday announced that it has hired top Qualcomm executive Jaiteerth Patwari as Research and Development Head for LeMall, the company's online shopping site in the country.Patwari worked with mobile processor supplier Qualcomm for 14 years and will now set up and head the development centre at LeMall India."We are very delighted to bring Jaiteerth on board, who will bring with him a wealth of experience which we're sure will be fruitful for us in our India journey," said Atul Jain, COO of Smart Electronics Business, LeEco India, in a statement."I am thrilled to join the LeEco family at such a critical junction of its growth journey in India. In the next couple of months, we will look at aggressively scaling up operations for LeMall in India," added Patwari.LeMall R&D is looking to hire 50 more engineers to build highly scalable distributed e-commerce platform.IANS