FreeCharge, India’s leading digital payments platform, announced the appointment of Anshul Kheterpal as the Chief Financial Officer. In his new role, Anshul will help craft strategies for the payments business at FreeCharge and Snapdeal and closely work with the senior leadership teams to strengthen the digital payments business.
Anshul has over 8 years of work experience across Finance, Strategy, Operations and Treasury & diversified and in-depth experience across Mobile Commerce, Digital Payments and Telecom Sector. Prior to his appointment at FreeCharge, Anshul was CFO and Principal Officer for Airtel Money. He was also until recently part of the steering committee of the BBPS and represented Airtel Money in the executive council of PCI – Payments Council of India.
Welcoming Anshul, Kunal Shah, CEO and co-founder, FreeCharge said
With FreeCharge’s aim to be the digital OS for the payments business in India, Anshul joining us will further strengthen our senior leadership team. With his years of experience in managing the complex business of payments coupled with his rich industry knowledge he will help build the most innovative digital payments platform for our customers.
FreeCharge Wallet crossed over 10 million users within 60 days of customer launch and is on an aggressive growth journey to reach 35 million wallets by March 2016. With the most intuitive user interface and new innovations, FreeCharge plans to expand into a number of new payments services in the next few months with new merchant products.
On commencement of his appointment at FreeCharge, Anshul Kheterpal said
I am excited to join FreeCharge at a time when the payments industry is abuzz with new ways of creating digital transaction processes for customers. The excitement and commitment at FreeCharge to create industry leading products is almost infectious and I am looking forward to working with the team here to grow the digital payments business.
About FreeCharge
FreeCharge is India’s leading digital platform for recharge and utility payments which provides prepaid, post-paid, DTH and Electricity bill payment for almost all Indian service providers. FreeCharge was founded in 2010 by Kunal Shah & Sandeep Tandon and had received funding of over $120 million in the last 4 years. In the largest acquisition in the consumer Internet space yet, Snapdeal acquired FreeCharge in Apr’15 resulting in India’s largest m-commerce ecosystem. For more details, please visit FreeCharge