BharatPe hires ex-Zomato executive in senior role

New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Merchant fintech start-up BharatPe on Tuesday announced the appointment of Nishant Jain as Chief Business Officer. Prior to joining BharatPe, Jain led the sales and hyper-growth agenda at Zomato.

He will be responsible for charting out BharatPe’s next phase of growth and will work on the company’s aggressive plans to scale up its footprint to 10 million merchants this year, the company said in a statement.

“His role will be crucial in growing our merchant network in India while generating and scaling the loan revenues for BharatPe. We will continue to add outstanding talent to capture this unprecedented opportunity and market we’ve found ourselves,” Ashneer Grover, Co-Founder and CEO, BharatPe said in a statement.

Jain will be the fourth CXO at BharatPe joining Vijay Agarwal (CTO), Nishit Sharma (Chief Revenue Officer) and Puneet Agarwal (Chief Risk Officer) in the core team.

–IANS

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