Gaurav Arora

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led payment innovations at major tech companies.
Co-founded a successful fintech startup.
Expert in scaling digital payment solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with extensive experience in digital payments and entrepreneurship.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementBusiness PlanningProduct DevelopmentEntrepreneurship

Other Skills

Android DevelopmentBusiness AnalysisCapital MarketsCorporate FinanceCryptocurrencyEquitiesFinTechGrowth StrategiesInvestment BankingManagement ConsultingMobile ArchitectureNew Business DevelopmentPHPSystem ArchitectureTrading

About

Experienced Product & Business leader with several year of experience in payments, finance, blockchain and technology. Passionate about building great teams and solving problems at scale for consumers. An insatiable appetite to learn about new domains and currently heads down in building the payments and supercoins ecosystem @Flipkart

Experience

Flipkart

Head Payments and Supercoins

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Okto

Sr. Vice President - DeFi Initiatives

Jun 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Business PlanningProduct ManagementGrowth StrategiesCryptocurrencyEntrepreneurshipNew Business Development+2

Amazon

2 roles

Director - Product, Amazon Pay India

Apr 2019 – Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Launched and scaled digital payment categories on Amazon across Bill Payments, Money Transfers, Financial Service and movie ticketing

Business PlanningNew Business DevelopmentProduct Development

Product & Business Head-Issuance (Stored Value Account, Gift Cards) at Amazon Pay India

Oct 2016 – Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Launched and scaled Amazon Pay wallet product (stored value account). Scaled to the top PPI wallets of India.

Business PlanningNew Business DevelopmentProduct Development

Noroc solutions pvt ltd

Co-founder and CTO @ Binge. Payments Startup

Dec 2013 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore

Watch this - https://youtu.be/lA665cWxUhg
The payment experience at restaurants is broken, we are fixing it. Binge is the revolutionary way to make payments at F&B outlets. No more waiting to pay or trying to figure out how to split a bill or leaving your card at the restaurant.
Leave your wallet at home and enjoy a cashless transaction with our Binge app on your iOS and Android phone.

Entrepreneurship

Millennium management

Quant Arbitrage Trader

Oct 2012 – Mar 2013 · 5 mos · Hong Kong

Designed and traded quantitative arbitrage models in Asian markets.

Nomura securities

Vice President

Sep 2008 – Sep 2012 · 4 yrs · Hong Kong

Senior Delta One Trader.
Synthetics trading: Traded Market Access products such as Swaps, PNotes etc., providing counterparties such as Hedge funds and Long-Only synthetic exposure to single stocks, indices, futures and IPOs across all restricted markets in Asia (India, Taiwan etc.).
Index Arbitrage Trading: Traded Index arbitrage across Asian markets with a special focus on India.
Restricted currency funding and FX hedging: Managed funding in restricted currencies (INR, TWD,
KRW) using onshore /offshore derivatives.
Structured Arbitrage trading: Traded around corporate action events ( right offerings/ dividends / stock splits etc.), analyzing the offering prospectus to identify and exploit inefficiencies arising in these events. Special focus on Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Thailand.

Lehman brothers

Delta One Trader

May 2007 – Sep 2008 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hong Kong

Asia-ex Japan Delta One trader. Managing single stock and index swaps across Asian markets.

Texas instruments

Design Engineer

Jul 2002 – Jul 2005 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

Designed and implemented the firmware for GPS subsystem that was subsequently implemented in the first few commercial GPS phones.
Firmware architecture definition, design and execution.
Primary Interface with Customer, Program Management, Marketing, Solution delivery,
Product ownership responsibilities along with People management responsibilities