BharatPe continues strengthening its leadership team

BENGALURU : Merchant-focused fintech, BharatPe, on Wednesday announced the appointment of Amit Jain as its chief risk officer.

Jain is the third senior addition to BharatPe’s leadership team this year. It had also roped in former chief executive of loyalty platform Payback, Gautam Kaushik, to lead its payments business, and appointed former partner at Amarchand Mangaldas, Sumeet Singh, as the company’s general counsel and head of corporate strategy.

In his new role, Jain will be reporting to BharatPe co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Ashneer Grover and group president Suhail Sameer.

With over 17 years of experience in portfolio and credit risk management in his previous role, Jain was the chief risk officer for consumer lending at Bajaj Finance.