Gautam Mahesh

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expertise in building Fintech products and partnerships.
  • Proven track record in leading product management teams.
  • Strong background in consumer lending and payments.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on product management and consumer lending.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementConsumer LendingFintechPayments

Other Skills

Account ManagementAnalyticsBusiness AnalysisBusiness AnalyticsBusiness DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceBusiness StrategyCCloud ApplicationsCore JavaData AnalysisEclipseEconomicsFinanceGeneral Insurance

About

Hands-on Full-stack Generalist with a bias for Product Management :) Possess deep understanding of the Lending, Payments and Fintech industry. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills with a track record of building and mentoring teams of varying sizes. Graduate of MDI Gurgaon. Leading Products, Programs and Partnershipsfor Decentro, a Financial Infrastructure Platform. Responsible for all things Payments! Experience: Products, Programs, Alliances, Analytics and Generalist roles across Incred, FlexiLoans, Klub, and Credit Sudhaar. Worked on Supply partnerships as well as demand programs. Worked with Nucleus Software and Dell Analytics with their Product and Product Marketing teams. Strong hands-on understanding of the entire product stack from acquisition to monitoring from a program and product development standpoint.

Experience

Volt money

Head of Product Management

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Leading product verticals for Volt to drive exponential impact on the lending ecosystem!
Product ManagementConsumer LendingLeadership

Decentro

2 roles

Senior Vice President Product Management

Apr 2023Jul 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Leading the Payments and Lending Product, Platforms & Partnerships charter for Decentro..
  • Building out India's leading payments infrastructure & Banking-as-a-service platform with a vision of simplifying and democratizing financial services. Leading Product and allied verticals with a strong focus on scale and experience. Driving Product & Tech teams to become better and more productive with an obsessive focus on improvement and learning. Leading partnerships to work with the right partners in our growth journey.
  • Involved actively in working with cross-functional stakeholders for taking our payments capabilities to the next orbit!
FinTechPaymentsProduct LaunchTeam ManagementStrategic PartnershipsProduct Management+1

Director of Product Management

Apr 2021Mar 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Joined Decentro to lead Product & Lending.
  • Building out India's leading Banking-as-a-service platform with a vision of simplifying and democratizing financial services. Leading Product and allied verticals with a strong focus on scale and experience. Mentoring Product & Tech teams to become better and more productive with an obsessive focus on improvement and learning.
  • Check out our offerings!!
FinTechPaymentsProduct LaunchTeam ManagementStrategic PartnershipsProduct Management+1

The product tree

Product Mentor/Co-Founder

Jun 2020May 2021 · 11 mos

Product MarketingTeam ManagementProduct Management

Incred financial services

Product Lead

May 2020Mar 2021 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

  • Leading Incred's Consumer lending and Credit underwriting platform across the group.
  • Helped scale up programs across DSA, B2C and the partnerships vertical.
FinTechProduct LaunchTeam ManagementProduct ManagementConsumer Lending

Pragmatic leaders

Product Mentor

Apr 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

  • Helping aspiring/early-stage PMs get better and awesome!
  • https://pragmaticleaders.io/
FinTechProduct Management

Klub

Director - Products & Partnerships

Dec 2019Apr 2020 · 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Joined Klub, a niche FinTech to lead Product and Supply partnership initiatives.
  • Klub is India’s first revenue-based financing marketplace for growth stage consumer brands with an aim to help brands access growth capital for their expansion and working capital needs.
FinTechProduct MarketingPaymentsProduct LaunchTeam ManagementStrategic Partnerships+1

Flexiloans

2 roles

AVP - Programs & Partnerships

Feb 2019Nov 2019 · 9 mos

  • Led teams across Lending partnerships and demand alliances. Launched new programs to diversify sources of capital and launched new initiatives to drive leadership across e-commerce channels.
  • Managed the scaling up of multiple portfolios and disbursal numbers, through partnerships with leading Banks and NBFCs across co-origination and co-lending programs
  • Managed capital dependency reduction initiatives on own book and identifying newer programs and initiatives to drive numbers through partners
  • Managed consistent delivery of numbers across portfolios in e-commerce by partnering with leading platforms and financing their buyers and sellers
  • Identified new products across the organization and driving GTM plan for new products
  • Tasked with driving repeat business from customers across e-commerce portfolio
FinTechProduct MarketingPaymentsProduct LaunchTeam ManagementStrategic Partnerships+1

AVP - Products

May 2017Jan 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Setup and led multiple teams across Product & Analytics spanning the entire business. Built out the underlying platform from sourcing to post-disbursement operations.
  • Led product team for all partner and internal facing verticals of the company. Managed all internal and external product-related communication of FlexiLoans
  • Managed planning of business and platform roadmap and owned execution and post-release
  • Managed productivity improvement and driving growth in business operations of the organization through development of innovative features across products by leveraging technology and data
  • Identified new products & policies to launch in the market across the stack through competitive intelligence and market benchmarking, India and globally
  • Engaged a diverse set of partners to bring in more intelligence into the credit decisioning process and decrease processing time for each file
  • Mentor and work actively with Data Science team in developing proprietary predictive models
  • Managed complex internal projects by working with multiple stakeholders like website revamp and end-to-end Lending Suite from conceptualization to development
  • Developed predictive models and scoring algorithms to enhance customer experience and improve internal decisioning by leveraging data from multiple sources and channels
FinTechPaymentsProduct LaunchTeam ManagementProduct Management

Credit sudhaar

Head - Strategy, Technology & Analytics

May 2016May 2017 · 1 yr · Mumbai Area, India

  • Credit Sudhaar is India’s first and leading credit improvement and advisory platform for individuals and SMEs. It was also India’s first sub-prime lending NBFC to its credit advisory customers.
  • Led multiple teams across Product, Technology, Analytics & Operations in a generalist role spanning Lending and Business operations.
  • Managed data-driven Strategy to drive business performance across verticals by working closely with Founders and leadership team
  • Identified newer products & target markets through primary and secondary research. Work closely with marketing and sales team to quickly tap into the newer segments
  • Managed Product Roadmap & Pricing Strategy for current and prospective offerings across credit improvement and financing solutions
  • Develop, establish and manage a holistic Analytics, Data & Infrastructure framework across functions on which newer credit models can be built to identify opportunities
  • Managed the Lending vertical of Credit Sudhaar and manage the credit and underwriting process from sourcing to disbursement to monitoring
  • Managed the entire Operational infrastructure of Credit Sudhaar across its lines of business
  • Managed all business and operational planning for referral business
FinTechTeam ManagementProduct ManagementConsumer Lending

Dell global analytics

Senior Business Analyst - Product & Pricing Analytics

Nov 2015May 2016 · 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Product & Pricing Analytics for Commercial LOB Services
FinTech

Nucleus software

Product Analyst

May 2015Nov 2015 · 6 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Product Analyst managing the flagship lending product for multiple geographies and Lending Analytics at a global level
Product ManagementConsumer Lending

Aviva india

Operations Summer Intern

Apr 2014Jun 2014 · 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Automation of Regulatory and Internal Reporting Systems of Aviva India
  • Automation of Operational MIS of Aviva India
  • Design an Inter-Departmental Pricing Mechanism for Aviva India

Management development institute, gurgaon

3 roles

Junior Student Council Member

Aug 2013Jan 2014 · 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Responsible for conducting student activities like club activities, academic workshops, etc.
  • Act as a liaison between the corporates, faculty and students for all student activities

Secretary, Monetrix

Aug 2013Jan 2014 · 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Responsible for coordinating events during Corporate Fests like Imperium and stand-alone events
  • Responsible for providing academic assistance to current batches in the form of Final and Summer Placement Assistance
  • Responsible for Weekly newsletter and monthly Magazine

Coordinator, Corporate Relations, Team Delphique

Jan 2013Feb 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • Actively involved in Pitching to Corporates for Research Projects and Corporate Sponsorships.
  • Managed and coordinated a team of nearly 30 members, who in turn managed Research Teams, Faculty and Corporates.

Tata consultancy services

Systems Engineer

Dec 2010May 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • J2EE Developer at Tata Consultancy Services with excellent knowledge of Domain, Process and Administrative Functions
  • Strong Domain knowledge of Life and Non-Life Insurance and Re-Insurance
  • Good knowledge of Process like Documentation, Resourcing, Requirements Analysis

Education

Management Development Institute, Gurgaon

Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) — Marketing and Finance

Jan 2013Jan 2015

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

Jan 2006Jan 2010

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