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LimeRoad appoints Pankaj Jain as new chief financial officer; move strengthens core management team
MUMBAI: Leading online fashion platform LimeRoad has hired Mr. Pankaj Jain as its ChiefFinancial Officer. He joins after a9-year stint as the CFO of the ibibo group. A seasoned and result driven finance professional, Pankaj Jain will be responsible for driving rapid growth, improving efficiency and delivering profitability at LimeRoad.
Mr Jain, who comes with a two-decade plus rich experience in finance and business management, has made invaluable contributions to driving large M&A transactions and delivering value to stakeholders during the span of his career.
“Pankaj brings 20+ years of experience and was part of the goIbibo journey from the early days right through to the merger with Makemytrip. He led the Redbusintegrationand launched strategic projects like PayU. Over the last 10 years, he saw the highs and the lows and knows what it feels like to be a highly ambitious challenger brand. We hit it off – he is a straight shooter, and still very hungry and eager to build greatness and I love that about him,”saidSuchi Mukherjee, founder & CEO, LimeRoad.
While serving as the CFO at the ibibo group, Mr Jain successfully drove and enabled consolidation in the online travel space adding solid value to all stakeholders. He was part of the founding team of ibibo’s online travel business- Goibibo in 2009 and helped the new business to rapidly scale up. He has also played a pivotal role in concluding one of the largest acquisitions in the online space in India – Redbus.
Prior to ibibo, he was the Finance and Strategy Director at Corning Inc, where he was responsible for the India business and setting up the company’s commercial operations in the Middle East. Pankaj started his professional journey with Price Waterhouse in the audit division in 1991.
“Fashion is a $200bn industry, and LimeRoad, with its deep focus on women, is the largest independent player in this space. Besides it is one of the few e-commerce firms that has quickly scaled and done so super efficiently, unlike most others. Suchi and I both believe that this is still Day 1 for us, with huge opportunities to go after. LimeRoad is on the path to profitability and this is just the right time for me to be a part of the top management at LimeRoad and help the business grow. I look forward to working with withSuchi and the team,” said Pankaj Jain, Chief Financial Officer at LimeRoad.
MUMBAI: In India’s fast-moving payments race, Visa has just swiped in a new leader. The company has named Suresh Sethi as its India country head, marking a key leadership shift as it sharpens its focus on digital payments growth in the market. Sethi steps into the role following his recent exit from Protean eGov Technologies, where he served as chief executive officer. He succeeds Sandeep Ghosh, who has moved on after more than four years at Visa to pursue an external opportunity.
The appointment comes at a time when Visa is doubling down on its expansion strategy across India and the wider region, deepening partnerships and accelerating adoption in an increasingly competitive digital payments ecosystem.
Sethi brings with him a broad, cross-market perspective shaped by decades of experience across corporate banking, retail financial services, mobile money and large-scale government technology initiatives. He began his career at Citigroup, where he spent 14 years working across India, Africa, South America and the United States, focusing on transaction banking services within the corporate bank.
His appointment signals a blend of institutional experience and market familiarity qualities that could prove critical as Visa navigates a landscape where fintech innovation, regulatory evolution and consumer adoption are all accelerating at once.
As digital payments in India continue to scale rapidly, the leadership change underscores a simple reality, in a market where every tap, scan and swipe counts, who leads the charge can matter just as much as the technology itself.
