Priyesh Ranjan

CEO

Delhi, India13 yrs 4 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 12+ years of experience in business scaling.
  • Led teams across 25+ cities in India.
  • Co-founded a tech platform for sales professionals.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce expert with strong leadership in business development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business Development

Other Skills

LeadershipProduct ManagementBusiness InsightsSales ManagementFinTechWritingIdeationMarketing StrategySocial MediaEntrepreneurshipStrategic PlanningE-commerceStrategic ConsultingConsultingAnalytics

About

An enterprising professional with 12+ years of experience in building & scaling businesses, P&L responsibility, large team management, sales, strategic partnerships, business product management across Fintech, SaaS & E-commerce. Currently building Linklogis' business in India. At Paytm, have worked across multiple payments and commerce businesses and have handled multiple business units with P&L responsibility. Stints can be grouped into 0-to-1, growth stage and monetisation buckets. Besides managing large teams doing merchant acquiring for PoS machines/offline payments, have formed partnerships with banks and OEMs for affordability, EMI subvention, consumer & card offers on Paytm merchant network. Have had unique opportunity to work across retail and enterprise businesses at Paytm and able to up-sell and cross-sell multiple products like online payment gateway solution, advertising, Fastag, salary accounts, loyalty, PoS machines, embedded insurance. Worked to build and grow multiple payments & commerce businesses at Paytm which include Movies, Events, Gift Cards, Cars & Bikes, Automobile Accessories, Home & Kitchen, Healthcare & Dairy verticals. Led these verticals with responsibility of merchants, users, transactions and revenue growth with a team spread across 25+ cities. Worked to build the supply side of the commerce business at Paytm. Acquired leading brands and merchants across categories like Fashion, Electronics and Home & Kitchen. Led a sales team of 60+ spread across 14 cities in West India and acquired 20,000+ SME merchants and more than a dozen enterprise brands. Worked at Infibeam.com on international business development of BuildaBazaar; work included developing go-to-market strategy for International markets; generating new business as well as service existing ones; suspecting, prospecting and leading pre-sales activities to build the sales funnel for the SaaS product. After 2 stints & 9 years as operator at Paytm & Infibeam, co-founded a venture building a micro community led tech platform for sales & marketing professionals in India helping in job discovery & upskilling. Proud of this failed venture with lots of learnings Management Graduate, IIM Ahmedabad. Engineering Graduate, IIT BHU. Author of 'That's The Life Baby', a fiction novel. Written columns for I-next, a youth daily of Dainik Jagran group.

Experience

13 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs
Average Tenure
1 yr 4 mos
Current Experience

Unloq

Senior Director, India

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Stenn technologies

Senior Country Director, India

Jan 2023Jan 2025 · 2 yrs

  • Built a profitable revenue function in India from ground up. Within 16 months of launch, achieved $5mn ARR, 110 new customers & a deal pipeline of 500+ prospects
LeadershipBusiness Development

Simplysales / risopro

Co-Founder

Jan 2022Jan 2023 · 1 yr

  • A venture aimed at building a micro-community led tech platform for sales & marketing professionals serving the needs of job discovery, up-skilling & career life cycle management.

Paytm

5 roles

Vice President

Promoted

Jan 2020Jan 2022 · 2 yrs

  • Built & worked across multiple payments & commerce businesses
LeadershipBusiness Development

Associate Vice President

Promoted

Jan 2018Jan 2020 · 2 yrs

General Manager

Jan 2017Jan 2018 · 1 yr

Deputy General Manager

Promoted

Jan 2016Jan 2017 · 1 yr

  • Currently building Entertainment business and Cars & Bikes category at Paytm

Regional Manager | BD & Alliances

Jan 2014Jan 2016 · 2 yrs

  • Worked to build the supply side of Marketplace business at Paytm. Helped in acquiring leading brands across categories like Fashion, Electronics & Home. Led a sales team of 60 spread across 14 cities and acquired more than 20,000 SME merchants.
Business InsightsBusiness Development

Infibeam avenues limited

International Business Development Manager

Jan 2013Jan 2014 · 1 yr · Greater Ahmedabad Area

  • Worked at Infibeam.com on international business development; Work included developing go-to-market strategy for International markets; generating new business as well as service existing ones; Suspecting, prospecting and leading pre-sales activities to build the sales funnel

Daiwa securities capital markets

PG Internship - Consultant to the COO

Apr 2012May 2012 · 1 mo · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Consultant to COO
  • Mapping of Investment Banking in India and analysis of financial aspects; Worked on future strategy and action plan

Xlri jamshedpur

Undergraduate Intern

May 2008Jun 2008 · 1 mo · Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India

  • Worked on Marketing Strategies, Acquisitions & Mergers, Product Placement.
  • Co-author of a case study on Suzlon’s marketing strategy which was registered with the London Business School. The case study is being used as a teaching material in many premier B-schools across the globe.
  • Co-author of a case study on In-film Product Placement which was incorporated in the curriculum of
  • ‘Advertising and Promotion’ course at XLRI Jamshedpur

Education

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

PGP — Management

Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Ceramic Sciences and Engineering

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