Upasana Taku

Co-Founder

Gurgaon, Haryana, India21 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

First female Fintech founder recognized by the President of India.
Featured in Forbes Asia's 25 Power Businesswomen list.
Advocate for STEM education and financial inclusion.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech leader with extensive experience in product management and business strategy.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementBusiness StrategyRisk ManagementResearch

Other Skills

AnalyticsBusiness AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceConsultingCorporate DevelopmentCross-functional Team LeadershipData AnalysisDatabase ManagementDigital MarketingE-commerceEntrepreneurshipExecutive ManagementFast LearnerFinancial Analysis

About

At the forefront of the Fintech Revolution in India - MobiKwik is a Digital Banking platform. We strive to bring Payments, Credit & Savings to the Next 500 Million Indians. Some accolades in my journey of building MobiKwik: > First female Fintech founder felicitation from President of India in 2018 > Featured in Forbes Asia's 25 Power Businesswomen list in 2019 > Featured in the Kotak Wealth Hurun – richest self-made women in India list I evangelize the causes I believe in: STEM for girls, financial inclusion for all, Startup India, Women Leaders in Tech, Sports India.

Experience

21 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

7 yrs

Average Tenure

13 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Zaakpay

Co-Founder

Nov 2012 – Present · 13 yrs 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Zaakpay provides payment processing to leading eCommerce companies in India. Zaakpay is a subsidiary of MobiKwik.

Mobikwik

Board Chair, Co-Founder & CFO

Mar 2010 – Present · 16 yrs 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

We are an Indian Fintech player of scale.
Our mission is to bring financial services to a Billion Indians.
We booked profitable quarters in FY24.
We are MobiKwik.
Our products MobiKwik, Zaakpay, Zip, Zip EMI, Xtra touch 155M users and 3.8M merchants in India.
If you want to be part of a collaborative, friendly & driven team that will create long term impact in the lives of a billion Indians, come join us at MobiKwik, Gurgaon!
Contact us on email ta[at]mobikwik.com

Financial ServicesBusiness DevelopmentProduct ManagementTeam ManagementAnalyticsBusiness Strategy

Multiple companies

Consultant

Nov 2008 – Feb 2010 · 1 yr 3 mos · New Delhi Area, India

2020 Social, Drishtee

Paypal

Senior Product Manager

Jan 2006 – Sep 2008 · 2 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Risk Product Management (Sep 07 - Sep 08)---
Played an executionist role in the rapid integration of FraudSciences (an Israeli startup acquired by PayPal) Intellectual Property
Engaged with fraud agents to identify fraud rings by designing an account linking tool
Managed the risk rules engine platform
Consulted on data infrastructure projects across eBay companies
Global Product Management (Apr 07 - Aug 07)---
Enabled a team of 3 product managers at our India development center by mentoring them on ideas, analytical thinking, products & communication to increase their impact
Guided solution design in areas of search, password, verification, funding methods, expansion on PayPal.com
Evangelized offshore product management pilot at PP
Financial Services Product Management (Jan 06 - Mar 07)---
Designed PayPal's bank payment solutions for China, France, Spain, Netherlands and India
Managed and maintained PayPal's ACH and check processing product in US
Handled vendor integrations with large banks globally

Risk ManagementProduct ManagementData Analysis

Hsbc

Business Analyst, Product Management

Sep 2004 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Diego County, California, United States

I worked at HSBC Auto Finance, San Diego which was a part of HSBC North America.
Managed loyalty programs and promotions to increase auto-loan origination volume and enhance sales relations at car dealerships.
Collaborated cross-functionally with Sales, Finance, Risk and Operations for the design and implementation of strategic projects to drive business in the indirect channel.
Core responsibilities included volume forecast, market research, performance trends, dealer segmentation, incentive payment, process automation, and other need based analytical reporting.

Business AnalysisMarket ResearchProduct ManagementBusiness Strategy

Stanford linear accelerator

Research Assistant

Sep 2002 – Sep 2004 · 2 yrs · Palo Alto

As a Research Assistant at the Mechanical Fabrication Department at SLAC, I worked on various 3-6 month projects during the 2 years.
Analyzed the shop process flow to ascertain bottlenecks and evaluated the scheduling strategy using multivariate decision models.
Collated procedures and created an online database
http://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/mfd/
Developed a computerized inventory control system

Process AnalysisDatabase ManagementResearch