Balaji Jagannathan
CEO
Experienced in Fintech business strategies and organisation management, Balaji has built many Fintech businesses ground up. He is also credited with building and rolling out banking software products for banks across many countries.
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Karthik Thenkarai
Chief Service Officer
A banking tech veteran of 26 years, Karthik Thenkarai has successfully helped merge the financial, non-financial data of top banks as part of mergers and acquisitions across India and Middle East. Karthik is an expert in architecting Anti-Money Laundering solutions. He was part of the core committee which drafted the AML guidelines of India. Karthik also successfully delivered the first end to end ACH automation solution in India.
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Rajesh Thayial
Vice President Products
Rajesh Thayial is Vice President – Products at Evolvus Solutions, driving Product Development, Product Delivery & Support as well as Customer Account Management. He is presently handling Business Development and Pre-Sales at Evolvus.
With 20+ years of experience in the banking domain, Rajesh has substantial expertise in Product Engineering, Product Delivery, Payments, ACH, SWIFT, RTGS/NEFT, IMPS, UPI and Real-time Payments.
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Ivan Fernandes
Investor & Advisor
Ivan is a serial entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of several successful IT companies with solution deployments for Banks, Financial Institutions and Government for over three decades. He is well known for his innovative skills in innovating and deploying Banking and Payment Solutions, mobile government solutions, mobile applications, mentoring and advising startups and college students. A thorough entrepreneur who has successfully traversed the entrepreneurial landscape from setting up a startup to exits multiple times.
His first company Synectics was an innovator for branch automation and Internet banking in the 90s and was one of the earliest IT Product organization to be acquired by Logica Plc, a UK FTSE 250 company in 1998. His second company Ducont was the earliest company in mobile banking & payments in early 2000 and was acquired by a public listed company in India. He has mentored several startups and was the founding Charter Member and Past President of TiE Dubai. He also founded Kanara Entrepreneurs (KE) to promote Entrepreneurship among individuals from the Kanara region in Karnataka, India.
He has promoted Entrepreneur cells in several colleges – St. Aloysius Institute of Management & IT in Mangalore, Christ University and St. Josephs Institute of Management in Bangalore. KE conducts Entrepreneur courses (run by entrepreneurs) for Christ University and St. Josephs Institute of Management in Bangalore as part of their syllabus.
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Anish Thomas
Chief Technology Officer
Anish Thomas is the Chief Technology Officer and the spearheads the Technical Architecture Group that defines the technology direction for Paycorp.io. He is responsible for refining engineering processes, determining technology standards, directing product development and dictating quality standards, tools and platforms.
Anish has over two decades of experience in setting up engineering processes and evaluating technology along with a multi-industry product development experience spanning ERP, Healthcare and Banking products. At Paycorp, he is the final word for engineering management, product design, software architecture and tech coaching.
An engineer by training, Anish has worked in global multi-national corporations in the tech sphere and is still preserves an evangelical zeal in spotting new innovations and research.
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