BharatPe has beefed up its leadership team by appointing Ankur Jain as Chief Product Officer. Jain will be responsible for the complete product lifecycle and innovation at BharatPe. He is the fifth CXO at BharatPe and joins Vijay Agarwal (CTO), Nishit Sharma (Chief Revenue Officer), Puneet Agarwal (Chief Risk Officer), and Nishant Jain (Chief Business Officer) in the core team.
Heading product management and user experience across customer touchpoints, Jain will contribute to BharatPe’s plans to scale up its footprint to 10 million merchants this year. Being an alumnus of Stanford University, he has a rich experience of working in deep technology startups like Kosmix and Instalocate and the world’s largest company Walmart.
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Ashneer Grover, Co-Founder & CEO, BharatPe said, “We are at an interesting point in our growth phase that requires constant innovation and fast delivery of products for the rapidly evolving digital and financial needs of Indian shopkeepers. We are methodically getting the right people in the right positions to meet these requirements. Talent will be our biggest differentiator.”
“I have a deep respect for the talent that has worked in the US – the vision with and scale at which professionals who have come back from the US operate is commendable. Ankur joining in a critical role will strengthen our core team, he has deep experience in accelerating revenue through new products and solutions, driving large-scale organizational change, and anticipating market dynamics to create new products and segments which will help us drive product innovation at a higher velocity,” Grover added.
Prior to BharatPe, Ankur Jain was the CEO and Co-Founder of Instalocate. He also worked at Walmart Labs as Senior Director of Product Management where he developed Artificial Intelligence (AI) based products prior to Instalocate.
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