PayNearby appoints Vivek Viswanathanas new Chief Technology Officer

By Leandra Monteiro

PayNearby, an Indian branchless banking and digital payments network, announced that Vivek Viswanathan has joined its executive team as the Chief Technology Officer. Vivek brings to the team deep technical experience – with a background in architecting, designing and building enterprise-grade products – as well as a new energy to propel PayNearby into its next phase of growth.

Viswanathanas will work closely with the company’s product, data and analytics teams to harness the power of technology to enable seamless delivery of financial services to every Indian and drive the cause of financial inclusion and democratization of digital payments in the country.

With over two decades of experience, Vivek brings to PayNearby robust expertise as a leader in the technology and software space across the functional domains of FinTech and supply chain. At PayNearby, he aspires to build a world-class tech organization focused on agility, efficiency and transparency through the use of technology, automation, processes and culture. Using the power of data, ML and AI, he seeks to provide our retailers and customers with the most reliable and delightful user experience with FinTech products that matter to Bharat.

Prior to PayNearby, Vivek oversaw Blue Yonder as the VP- Product Development to enable digital supply chain and omnichannel commerce fulfillment. He also led the engineering division of Setu – a FinTech API platform – as the CTO, building APIs to help integrate financial services into the customers’ products. In his time at Ezetap – a pioneer in the MPoS and Payments tech space, he helmed the expansion of the company as its VP-Engineering. He was also the Co-founder and CEO at Stillwater – a social media startup and is known to have built consistently high performing teams.

Speaking on the appointment, Anand Kumar Bajaj, Founder, MD & CEO, PayNearby said, “We are thrilled to welcome Vivek to the executive team. Vivek brings a wealth of knowledge to his new role and he will certainly be an invaluable asset to our team as we continue to advance our product architecture and solutions platform. Vivek will solidify our commitment to creating exceptional solutions for enabling financial inclusion and democratization of digital payments at the last mile. As CTO, Vivek will work with PayNearby’s executive team to create, execute and launch new offerings across the company’s product domain that will bring further support to our retail partners and customers and help us build a digitally and financially inclusive Bharat.”