Akash Singh

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 12 years in Business, Strategy, and Growth.
  • Led Financial Services at Meesho and Lending at Shopee.
  • Top 1% graduate from IIM Calcutta.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech leader with extensive experience in payments and lending strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Financial ServicesBusiness StrategyLendingPaymentsE-commercePerformance ImprovementResearchAnalysisImage Processing

Other Skills

Cloud TechnologyBankingMarket ExpansionData AnalysisVBAStatisticsManagement ConsultingBusiness AnalysisMarket ResearchAlgorithmsFinancial ModelingFinancial AnalysisBusiness TransformationMatlabSimulations

About

Seasoned professional with 12 years of experience in Business, Strategy and Growth across Online and Payments and Lending businesses. Currently leading Financial Services business at Meesho. Prior to this I led Lending Business for Shopee and the POS and IoT Payments Business at Paytm. Prior to Paytm, worked at Reliance Industries with the Chief of Staff and as Summer Associate at Mckinsey & Company. Strong academic background, graduated with the Honor Roll (Top 1%) from IIM Calcutta & Silver medal at IIT Kharagpur (Rank 1 in Electrical Engineering.)

Experience

13 yrs
Total Experience
3 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Meesho

GM and CXO - Financial Services

Oct 2023Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru

  • Building Financial Services at Meesho for our users, sellers and other ecosystem partners
Financial ServicesBusiness Strategy

Shopee

Business Head of Lending and Payments, Seamoney (Shopee)

Jun 2021Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Singapore

  • Building lending business in Philippines for Seamoney and leading the Merchant business for ShopeePay merchants in South Asian Markets.
  • Hiring !
LendingPayments

Paytm

Vice President, Business & Products

Jul 2015Jun 2021 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Led Business (P&L),Strategy and Product and for POS and IoT Payments Business at Paytm.
  • Helped build a network of 250K+ merchant acceptance points with EDC devices.
  • Collaborated with OEMs and cross-functional teams to develop cost effective & innovative IoT solutions for merchants.
  • Built an ecosystem integrated softwares on POS devices along with Brands and Banks partnerships and to provide and complete business solution for payments, marketing and store operations.
  • Managed P&L and building revenue stream for the business to drive profitability for merchant business
  • Prior to my current role, I led strategic projects at Paytm where I was responsible for strategy, planning and execution for projects across Payments & Ecommerce:
  • Set up UPI payments for Paytm and helping grow the user base and transaction volumes
  • Built a Cloud technology for scalable and secure Payment experience for Paytm users for online and QR code payment
  • Set up Paytm Payments Bank to offer more products and services to Paytm users
  • Enable Indian merchants to sell their products outside India through Paytm Mall (cross border)
  • I have also have worked with One97 Mobility Fund - investment arm of Paytm which invests across seed & early stages to growth stage companies, focusing on technology and mobile commerce sectors. As part of the fund, I worked on aspects of a deal including Sourcing, valuation analysis, due-diligence, and execution.
PaymentsBusiness Strategy

Reliance

Executive Assistant, Chairman's Office (Chief of Staff)

Jun 2013Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

  • Worked a part of the Chairman’s Office to spearhead strategic initiatives and fuel growth of businesses of the company. My roles and responsibilities included:
  • 1. Supporting Chairman in his engagements - prepared executive notes, presentations & reading material for the Chairman and liaised with internal & external parties on his behalf
  • 2. Drive business growth strategy – prepared strategy roadmaps and implementation plans for business expansion, market entry opportunities and performance improvement drives
  • 3. On-going business performance analysis – Conducted reviews of existing businesses and implemented key transformation initiatives
  • 4. Investment opportunities – Analyzed investment opportunities, conducted due diligence and prepared term sheets for investments of the company
  • 5. New Projects/ Businesses – Conceptualized and implemented new projects such as Indian Super League
  • Sector experience – worked across different sectors like Oil and Gas, Telecom, Technology, Retail and Sports
  • Experience across functions – Strategy, HR, Marketing, Corporate Communication, Operations & Finance
  • One of the youngest employee to be selected for the Career Acceleration Program, which aimed to identify the top talent of the company through a comprehensive and a rigorous selection process.
Business StrategyPerformance Improvement

Mckinsey & company

Summer Associate

Apr 2012May 2012 · 1 mo · Mumbai

  • Assessed impact of School Excellence Program on student learning, for Government schools in Mumbai, for the year 2011-12
  • Analyzed student performance in standardized tests across 42 schools to judge improvement in Marathi & Mathematics
  • Designed a model to teach English as Second Language (ESL) & presented to the client; Appreciated for a comprehensive output
  • Studied the existing curriculum & ESL teaching models of 10 NGOs; Conducted interviews with experts from 14 organizations
ResearchAnalysis

Mitacs

Research Asistant

May 2010Jul 2010 · 2 mos · University of Toronto, Canada

  • Amongst 22 students selected from 7 IITs for the internship;
  • Developed an image search engine in Matlab & improved search accuracy by 33%
  • Offered Graduate admission offer with scholarship
Image ProcessingResearch

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

PGDM (MBA)

Jan 2011Jan 2013

EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht

Master of Business Administration (MBA) — Exchange Student

Jan 2012Jan 2012

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Bachelor of Technology (Hons.) — Electrical Engineering

Jan 2007Jan 2011

St. Francis' College, Lucknow

Jan 2002Jan 2006

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