Ashwin Bhatnagar

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-Founder of Xflow simplifying cross-border payments.
Led critical initiatives at Stripe for financial infrastructure.
Experienced in building solutions for global commerce.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on payments infrastructure and product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Payment SystemsProduct Management

Other Skills

SWIFT PaymentsPayment Card ProcessingSoftware SelectionIT StrategySales ProcessProcess EngineeringTeaching EnglishLeadership DevelopmentManagement ConsultingStrategyStart-upsTeaching English as a Second LanguageSoftware Project ManagementBusiness ProcessOutsourcing

About

Ashwin is a Co-Founder at Xflow, a startup that aims to simplify cross-border payments infrastructure. With over 7 years of experience in the payments and product domain, he is passionate about building solutions that enable global commerce and economic inclusion. Prior to Xflow, he was the Payments and Product Technical Advisor at Stripe, where he drove critical initiatives for the Chief Product Officer, such as setting up the Stripe India financial infrastructure, product managing high availability and data localization projects, and hiring top talent. He also worked at Amazon.com, leading a confidential program in the special projects team and the consumer electronics category for the Junglee business in India. Ashwin is skilled in software selection, software project management, and business analysis. He has a background in computer science and is fluent in English and Hindi. He is also an alumnus of the Teach For India Fellowship program and a co-founder of a social enterprise that sponsors yearly themed events for children from all economic strata. He is excited about working with incredible people and doing the best work of his life at Xflow.

Experience

20 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Xflow

Co-Founder & CEO

Apr 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Come build the future of cross-border payments infrastructure with Xflow. If you are excited about building a company from the ground up, working with incredible people and doing the best work of your lives, dm me. We're actively hiring across Engineering, Product, Design and Business Operations.

Payment SystemsSWIFT PaymentsProduct Management

Stripe

2 roles

Payments and Product Technical Advisor (Chief of Staff to CPO)

Feb 2020 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

In my role as the Payments and Product Technical Advisor, I report up to the Chief Product Officer to drive the Chief Product Officer's most critical initiatives with efficiency and speed. I contribute to projects and programs that shape the future of Product at Stripe.

Payment SystemsSWIFT PaymentsPayment Card ProcessingProduct Management

Biz/Product

Jan 2017 – Feb 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Responsible for setting up the Stripe India financial infrastructure, large user integrations and hiring. I also product manage infrastructure initiatives like high availability and data localization to help Stripe be relevant in its mission of building infrastructure for global commerce.

Payment SystemsSWIFT PaymentsPayment Card ProcessingProduct Management

Amazon

Senior Program Manager, Special Projects

Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Started at Amazon double hatting as a category and product manager at Junglee (one of Amazon India's Consumer Business verticals ). I also led a confidential program on the seller side at Amazon.

Pwc india

Principal Consultant

May 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked as a management consultant in Pittiglio, Rabin, Todd & McGrath (PRTM), a strategy and operations consulting firm which specializes in new product development, supply chain and market entry strategy. PRTM was acquired by PwC in late 2011.

What will i do about it?

Co-founder

Jul 2011 – Apr 2012 · 9 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Co-founded the 'What will I do about it?' social enterprise, which sponsors a yearly themed event for children from all economic strata to up level their ideas about problems that affect society as a whole.

Teach for india

Fellow

Jun 2010 – Apr 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Part of the second cohort of Teach For India, a non-profit organization that provides a 2-year Fellowship for individuals to teach fulltime in low income schools. I was the class teacher for ~100 students in Grades 3 and 4, Sant Gadge Maharaj English Medium School, a low income public school in Pune, India.

Infosys technologies ltd

2 roles

Senior Associate

Jan 2006 – Jun 2010 · 4 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Worked as a Business Consultant in the high-tech, banking and energy verticals at Infosys Consulting, a strategy and technology focused consulting start-up, seed funded by Infosys Technologies, Ltd.