Akshat Birla

CEO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India20 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Founder of BharatNXT, revolutionizing B2B payments.
Led Samsung Pay's expansion to over 20 countries.
Active angel investor supporting multiple startups.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with extensive experience in B2B payments and supply chain financing.

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Skills

Core Skills

FintechBusiness DevelopmentSupply Chain FinancingMarketingCorporate StrategyNew Business DevelopmentStrategyMarket EntryOperations ManagementTeam ManagementCapital MarketsValuationFinancial Analysis

Other Skills

Business StrategyProject ManagementGTM StrategyPartnership ManagementFinancial ModelingManagement ConsultingDerivativesInvestmentsBusiness AnalysisEmerging MarketsEquitiesStructured FinanceStrategic PartnershipsPeople Management

About

Akshat is the Founder and CEO of BharatNXT, a Fintech platform that allows Businesses to pay almost anyone with their Credit Card, even if they(receiver) do not accept Credit Cards. BharatNXT has a very simple pitch: Pay Vendor, GST, Utils, Rent, Tax & more only on BharatNXT. Get 45-50 days of Credit. Earn Rewards and Cashbacks. Akshat has been a serial entrepreneur having started and scaled Finovate Capital, a Supply Chain Financing Fintech and has taken Samsung Pay from an idea to being present in over 20 countries (including India) as a leading Mobile Payments app. He has also worked in Supply Chain (i2, India), Banking (Credit Suisse, Singapore/London), Samsung (Corporate Strategy, New Business) for the chairman’s office in Korea HQ. Akshat is also an keen Angel Investor and Leads the INSEAD Angels India.

Experience

Bharatnxt

Founder, CEO

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

BharatNXT is providing the infrastructure to make B2B payments on credit cards a reality, giving the business user up-to 45 days credit for Vendor, GST, Tax, Utilities and Rental payments. This is only step one of realizing our vision to become the de-facto Business Payments Platform for small and medium businesses.

Business StrategyBusiness DevelopmentFinTechProject Management

Insead angels india

President, Insead Angels India

Sep 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 6 mos · India

Angel investor

Angel Investor

Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 2 mos · India

Invested in multiple startups and actively engaged with many more.
Notable Investments:
Health Factory (https://thehealthfactory.in/)
Proactive For Her (https://proactiveforher.com/)
Daybreak Oral Care (https://atdaybreak.co/)
Pariksha (https://www.pariksha.co/),
iMumz (https://www.imumz.com/)
CarterX (https://carterporter.in/home)
Lido Learning (https://www.lidolearning.com/)
Gully Network (https://www.gullynetwork.com/),
and more.

Finovate capital

Founder, CEO

Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 · 4 yrs · Mumbai Area, India

Finovate Capital is leveraging technology to bring seamless access, to supply chain financing (invoice discounting) for Small and Medium businesses, at the click of a button. We offer an end to end platform for Suppliers and Buyers/Corporates to optimize their working capital and improve their bottom-line.

Supply Chain FinancingBusiness DevelopmentProject Management

Samsung electronics

3 roles

Head of Service Business Operations, S.W. Asia (Samsung Pay, Bixby)

Aug 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Seoul, Korea

Heading HQ(Korea) and local India teams to localize, launch and manage Samsung Services (Samsung Pay, Bixby)
Responsible for all aspects of business operations, including business development, marketing and GTM strategy, legal/contracts, product roadmap, customer service and performance management
Awarded the CTO award for managing and delivering one of the most challenging yet successful regions

Business DevelopmentMarketingGTM Strategy

Global Business Dev & Partnership Lead, Payment Networks and Financial Institutions, Samsung Pay

Promoted

Nov 2015 – Aug 2016 · 9 mos · Seoul, Korea

Leading business development and partnerships across the full spectrum of payments/Fintech landscape
Global Partnerships lead with payment networks (Visa, MasterCard, Amex, Discover) and global financial institutions for Samsung Pay and was responsible for driving the strategic direction and collaborations
Business development across the Fintech landscape to explore global/regional collaborations for Samsung Pay such as cross boarder remittances, blockchain, p2p, prepaid cards, cross selling of financial instruments etc.

Business DevelopmentPartnership ManagementFinTech

Senior Manager, New Business Strategy, Corporate Strategy and Planning

Jan 2015 – Nov 2015 · 10 mos · Seoul, Korea

Driving corporate strategy and direction for New Business areas for Samsung Electronics
Primary focus was Smart Home and Smart Health, but also looked into VR, artificial intelligence and other companies as part of Samsung's in-house Incubator
Identified strategic opportunities by working with internal and external stakeholders, including start-ups, venture capitalists and industry experts

Corporate StrategyNew Business Development

Samsung global strategy group

Global Strategist

Apr 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Seoul, Korea

As part of an organization reporting to the Chairman's office, worked on numerous strategy projects for Samsung Electronics and Samsung's Finance Group of Companies. Key project engagements (scoping through to execution):
International expansion and inorganic market entry in SEA for Finance Group of Companies
Go to market strategies for innovative and cutting edge new mobile/display products
Building a statistical sales forecasting model by incorporating global insights, for flagship products
New business and monetization strategies (mobile payments, artificial intelligence)

StrategyMarket Entry

Mba & company

India Country Manager

Jul 2012 – Dec 2012 · 5 mos · Greater Delhi Area

Business development. India strategy and operations.

Business DevelopmentOperations Management

Credit suisse, london

2 roles

Assistant Vice President

Aug 2007 – Nov 2011 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Managed a team of 5 to look after the European Structured Credit Derivatives & Leverage Finance Capital market desks.

Business Development

Analyst

Nov 2005 – Aug 2007 · 1 yr 9 mos

Worked as a Pricing Analyst for the Credit Derivatives team and focused on understanding valuation issues and substantiating pricing of the derivative trades. These included flow, synthetic and structured derivatives.

Team ManagementCapital Markets

I2 technologies

Supply Chain Consultant

Jun 2004 – Nov 2005 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Supply chain strategy and project management
Implemented projects on supply side i.e. strategic sourcing, product sourcing and supplier management, which assisted clients with purchasing optimization, forecasting, and inventory management
Evaluated the business from the core supply chain perspective, right from the procurement of raw material to the delivery of the finished product to the consumer
Worked with clients from varied industries such as defence aviation and defense electronic equipment manufacturers, located in different geographic regions including US & South Africa

ValuationFinancial Analysis