Priyesh Ranjan — CEO
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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce expert with strong leadership in business development.
Location: Delhi, India
Experience: 13 yrs 4 mos
Skills
- Business Development
Career Highlights
- 12+ years of experience in business scaling.
- Led teams across 25+ cities in India.
- Co-founded a tech platform for sales professionals.
Work Experience
Unloq
Senior Director, India (1 yr 4 mos)
Stenn Technologies
Senior Country Director, India (2 yrs)
SimplySales / RisoPro
Co-Founder (1 yr)
Paytm
Vice President (2 yrs)
Associate Vice President (2 yrs)
General Manager (1 yr)
Deputy General Manager (1 yr)
Regional Manager | BD & Alliances (2 yrs)
Infibeam Avenues Limited
International Business Development Manager (1 yr)
Daiwa Securities Capital Markets
PG Internship - Consultant to the COO (1 mo)
XLRI Jamshedpur
Undergraduate Intern (1 mo)
Education
PGP at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi