Ishan Sharma

Business Development Executive

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building payment products and business development.
  • Led UPI initiatives from inception to implementation.
  • Strong background in fintech and transaction banking.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on payment solutions and business development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business DevelopmentPaymentsProduct ManagementTransaction BankingOperations ManagementProduct DevelopmentProject Management

Other Skills

Team ManagementFinancial AnalysisDigital StrategyMarket ResearchCustomer SupportPerformance TestingCorporate TaxProject FinanceBusiness AnalysisRequirements AnalysisC++SQLCMicrosoft OfficePowerPoint

About

- Payments is my passion. Product manager at heart, leading BizDev. - Seen the growth of UPI from Day 1, building UPI for a bank to building it for regulators and multiple merchants - Believe in value creation and monetisation of value. - Always up for a product pitch or commercial negotiation with partners. - Tech policy student, learning how tech policy shapes our lives.

Experience

13 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
9 yrs
Current Experience

Juspay

Head of Sales and Business Development

Apr 2017Present · 9 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Business Development
  • Product centric business leader with deep understanding of payments and technology
  • Responsible for growing business and building new payment products and revenue streams at Juspay.
  • Leading a team of 50+ members responsible for growing our end to end payments products across India
  • Grown the business with deep integrations in leading consumer tech, enterprises and tech platforms in India
  • Worked to build acceptance on 1-click products(VSC), UPI and now tokenisation
  • Leading a team of analyst to work on investor relations and reporting. Worked on fund raise for the company with IB and investor teams. We are funded by Softbank, Accel Partners, VEF and Wellington Partners
  • Product Management
  • Managing implementation of new payment methods with focus on UPI, payment containers and wallets on internal and bank stack
  • Launched UPI bank stack, In-app SDK improving SR by 10-20% for the biggest merchants in India.
  • Launched and designed new features on internal payment stack viz. New PG integrations across cards, wallets, Mandates, Multi MID, Payouts etc.
Business DevelopmentPaymentsProduct ManagementTeam ManagementFinancial Analysis

Standard chartered bank

Associate Transaction Banking

Aug 2015Apr 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Worked in Transaction Banking division in different roles.
  • Product Management
  • Product Manager UPI and New Digital Initiatives in Payments and Collections
  • Designed and implemented uses cases on UPI, IMPS, and IMT
  • Prepared product roadmaps, wireframes, BRDs and solution documents
  • Implemented UPI In-App SDK for merchants working with NPCI and vendors
  • Digital strategy for the bank in Cash with focus on initiatives like Super Connect, e-NACH, Open APIs etc.
  • Worked with Marketing team to run a print campaign on UPI (Ad was published in TOI and ET)
  • Worked to set up a dedicated website (https://www.sc.com/upi/) explaining UPI use cases
  • Set up the process for daily tracking of CASA balances with mapping to respective divisions and account managers
  • Set up a process to identify expired escrow accounts as part of the Operational Risk Identification Process
  • Prepared a report on the scope of Gold custody and process of implementation
  • Transaction Banking Sales for Global Corporates
  • Handled portfolio of New to Banks clients in TMT space for different product categories viz. Cash, Trade and Securities Services
  • UPI commercialization strategy for large Indian and MNC corporates; won 20+ mandates across different sectors
  • Worked with Head of Sales to track team performance and cross-sell strategy for new products
Product ManagementDigital StrategyTransaction BankingMarket Research

Pharmeasy

Head of Operations-Diagnostics

Apr 2015Jul 2015 · 3 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • PharmEasy is a tech startup in healthcare sector offering home delivery of drugs & home based diagnostics. I joined them in early phase and worked in both medicine retail and diagnostics section. Later I handled operations of Diagnostic unit and was involved in setting up processes, business tie-ups and product development of diagnostic module in PharmEasy app.
  • Some of the initiative undertaken are highlighted as below
  • Established the diagnostics unit which included lab tie ups, recruitment, process design, procurement etc.
  • Conceptualized product design, user flow and features in mobile app leading to reduction in duplication & increase in orders
  • Responsible for Product integration & customer support; designed the update, accounts management process; set up a customer feedback process with survey of more than 10,000 customers
  • Optimization of delivery process of medicine resulting in reduction of last mile delivery time by 24 hours
Operations ManagementProduct DevelopmentCustomer Support

Ensemble core team

Senior Executive Member

Apr 2014Feb 2015 · 10 mos

  • Events Lead
  • Infra Lead Ensemble’14 ,handling a budget of 10+ lakhs and prize money of 8 lakhs
  • Events Lead for Prometheus and Circus Maximus which had participation from 50+ B schools

Standard chartered bank

Summer Intern

Apr 2014Jun 2014 · 2 mos · Mumbai

  • TRANSACTION BANKING, WHOLESALE BANKING
  • Awarded a Pre-Placement Offer (PPO) in the International Graduate Program at SCB.
  • SECURITIES SERVICES
  • Capability Benchmarking of Securities Services in India
  • Evaluated the performance of SCB securities services on key parameters (Clearing and settlement platform, corporate actions, reporting capabilities) in areas like Product and Technology, Channels, Operations and Service
  • Conducted Primary Research; meeting 10+ clients which included FIIs, Mutual Funds, Insurance Funds & Broker Dealers
  • OUTCOMES
  • Recommended new approaches to improve Time to market , Channel and Perception management with clients
  • Developed a relative scale to rank competition and SCB on identified parameters viz Cut off Timings, Operational Support Hours, Staffing, and Exception Handling.
  • Recommended new approaches to improve Time to market , Channel and Perception management with clients
  • Developed a relative scale to rank competition and SCB on identified parameters viz. Cut off Timings, Operational Support Hours, Staffing, and Exception Handling.

Ibm global business services

Associate System Engineer

Jul 2011May 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Worked on-site for a leading domestic telecom client in the performance testing team
  • Project manager for building a software application named “RoTS”- A repository of test scenarios
  • Led a team of 4 members for the execution and identification of bottlenecks in applications
  • Prepared & presented proposals for buying licenses required to do automation testing at client end-
  • ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Top performer of the year with an appraisal rating of 1 in first year of service at IBM
  • Awarded Orion award in recognition of eminence and excellence as an individual and a team player
  • Implemented virtual services with a vendor significantly reducing the bottleneck identification time
Performance TestingProject Management

Education

XLRI Jamshedpur

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Jan 2013Jan 2015

Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat

B.Tech — Electronics

Jul 2007May 2011

SVNIT

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Electronics Engineering

Jan 2007Jan 2011

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