Paytm Appoints Bhavesh Gupta As President And Chief Operating Officer

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One97 Communications Ltd, which operates Paytm, on Tuesday, appointed Bhavesh Gupta as president and chief operating officer of the company.

In a regulatory filing, the company said, “Bhavesh Gupta is a financial services professional with over 25-year experience building businesses grounds up in payments, technology and analytics platforms, retail loans, digital lending, SME banking, retail banking etc.”



Gupta is a graduate from Delhi University and completed his MBA from Institute of Management Studies, Indore.



In his role as president and chief operating officer of the company, he will be responsible to lead verticals of Lending, Insurance, Payments – online and offline, consumer payments, and drive key initiatives including User Growth, Operations Risk, Fraud Risk, and Compliance.

Bhavesh Gupta will continue reporting to Vijay Shekhar Sharma, managing director and chief executive officer of the company.

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