BharatPe, India’s largest merchant payment, and lending network firm, has appointed Ankur Jain as its new Chief Product Officer. As a part of his appointment, Jain will be handling the complete product lifecycle and innovation at BharatPe. Ankur is the fifth CXO to be appointed at BharatPe and he joins Vijay Agarwal (CTO), Nishit Sharma (Chief Revenue Officer), Puneet Agarwal (Chief Risk Officer), and Nishant Jain (Chief Business Officer) in the core team.
He will be heading product management and user experience across customer touch points, and will be contributing to BharatPe’s aggressive plans to level- up its footprint to 10 million merchants this year. He is an alumnus of Stanford University has years of rich experience of working across deep technology start-ups like Kosmix and Instalocate and the world’s largest company Walmart.
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 deep respect for talent that has worked in the US – the vision with and scale at which professionals who have come back from 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,” Ashneer added.
Prior to joining BharatPe, Ankur was appointed as the CEO and Co-Founder of Instalocate.
