Gary Singh

Gary Singh is MD/General Manager Nokia Mobile Payment Services India. Mr. Singh, a 20-year veteran from Silicon Valley, has been part of the mobile revolution from the early days of his career, which started with the wave of POS automation that swept through the retail and banking industries driving higher employee productivity and enhanced customer experience. He was then part of the mobility based real time solutions revolution which automated the supply chain and drove paradigm shifts in the retail, manufacturing & logistics industries. More recently he has been part of mobilizing the enterprise and consumers by taking mobile technologies to new heights with standardization, scalability and security. Throughout his career Mr. Singh has been at the core of designing new products and solutions and then taking them to the market with key responsibilities in the areas of product management, R&D, marketing and sales.

Mr. Singh joined Nokia from Obopay where he was Senior Vice President/GM for its India Business. Prior to Obopay Mr. Singh served as Vice President of Marketing at Aruba Networks where he led IPO related marketing and industry GTM strategy and execution. Prior to Aruba, Mr. Singh served as GM and Director of Product Marketing and Management for Nokia's Security and Mobile Connectivity group. Before that, Mr. Singh spent a decade at Symbol Technologies in the wireless infrastructure division where he helped pioneer the Wi Fi market. Mr. Singh holds multiple patents in the area of mobile technologies and graduated with BS in Economics from Punjab University.

Shreepad Shende

Shreepad has diverse work experience of over 18 years in the financial services domain. He has expertise in both B2B and B2C marketing. He joined NMPSIPL in June 2011.

Prior to joining NMPSIPL, he has worked with companies like ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, TATA AIG Life Insurance Company and prior to that a few stints in advertising agencies. He has handled multiple assignments in the area of brand building, marketing, new product development, managing loyalty programs, strategy and press relations.

He joined ICICI Bank in 2004 and as head - marketing for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) division at ICICI Bank, he was responsible for setting up the marketing team for the SME group in this role. He conceptualized and launched several innovative B2B marketing initiatives. One such initiative called "Emerging India Awards" also featured in Limca book of records and Shreepad was felicitated by the then MD & CEO of ICICI Bank, Mr. K. V. Kamath for achieving this feat.

Shreepad is a winner of ICICI Bank DNA exemplifier for two years in a row 2006-07 and 2007-08 for DNA anchor - "Collaboration" signifying - "striving not just to win as an individual but to win as a team" and was nominated for the Leadership Management Program in 2006. He was on Expert panel of judges at TATA-NEN hottest start-ups Awards 2008.

Shreepad is a graduate in electronics and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IMDR, Pune.

Rahul Singh

Rahul has over 20 years of experience in sales and distribution across FMCG and telecom operators in the country having handled national and circle sales roles with exposure to retail as well as corporate sales. He has worked with leading FMCG and telecom companies in India like ITC Limited, Colgate Palmolive India Limited, Tata British Petroleum, Airtel, Idea Cellular and the Future Group.

He also has an experience in working in a start-up environment and has worked with 2 start-up companies before joining NMPSIPL. This includes Tata British Petroleum in lubricants and Tata Docomo on the telecom operator side of the business.

Rahul has expertise in setting up sales teams and operations, appointing distributors and channel partners. He has managing large teams in the past. During his stint at Tata Docomo, he was awarded the best Circle in the country in for 2009-10 across key performance parameters like sales achievement, revenue targets and Sales & Distribution indicators.

Rahul is 41 summers old, married and with a son of 11 years and enjoys music, travel and sports.

Balachandran Unni

Balachandran is a Sales and Business Development professional with more than 20 years of experience in building alliances for launching products in emerging technology sectors including e-commerce, m-commerce & digital payments.

Balachandran joined NMPSIPL in January 2011, and as part of the start-up team he is responsible for developing a robust mobile payments ecosystem in the country. These include building partnerships with banks, telecom operators, service aggregators, merchants and large enterprises.

Prior joining NMPSIPL, he was part of Obopay Mobile Technologies India right from its inception in India in April 2007. He was part of the team responsible for launching the first Prepaid Mobile Payment service in India.

He also worked with OnMobile Global Ltd and Rediff.com. At OnMobile Global, he setup the first mCommerce platform in India leveraging SMS/IVR and WAP as the access channels and credit card as the mode of payment. At www.rediff.com, he was instrumental in setting up the first B2C ecommerce site in India, establishing new business opportunities in areas of Enterprise Email solutions, Online Corporate Gifting sites, Cash-on-Delivery etc.

Balachandran is an Economics Graduate and has a Senior Management Program degree from IIM Calcutta. Is a committee member at Mobile Payment Forum of India (MPFI) and aligned with IAMAI.

Prakash Pai

Prakash is an industry veteran in software products in the Banking and Financial Services domain. He is very well versed with the onsite offshore outsourcing and near shoring models of software business.

Before joining NMPSIPL, he was President at Nucleus Software Exports Ltd. During his career, he has managed relationship with customers across various continents and cultures, organization types both multinational as well as local private and public sector undertakings. He has led highly motivated productive team members and his crisis management skills are most sought after.

In the past, Prakash has represented his company at various global and domestic forums, including the investor meetings, company AGM and business development events, and excels in networking capabilities at C-levels and senior management of banks and financial institutions.

He is a panel member for recruiting senior IT professionals to public sector banks as an independent technical member. Prakash is also a President of a charitable organization.

He has also worked with Bank of India , Walchandnagar Industries and Tata Motors. Prakash is a graduate of Fergusson College, Pune, and post-graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

Abha Mehta

Abha Mehta is an experienced financial services professional with over 20 years of experience in operations, Service Quality and service delivery domain. The business operations function in NMPSIPL is the service delivery vertical of the business and together with Technology Operations is responsible for delivering an exceptional customer experience.

Abha joined the NMPISL in Feb 2011 from GE Capital Services India where she worked to prepare the operations platform for the next level of business growth. As the Vice President Operations, she supported the Asset based commercial lending products including Healthcare, Distribution Finance, Commercial Vehicles and Commercial equipment. She was also responsible for more structured finance products like Promoter Funding, Corporate Loans, Trade Finance and Working Capital Loans.

Prior to GE, Abha has held several leadership positions with Standard Chartered Bank in Wholesale Banking -Standard Chartered Services, Cash Management Services, Bank Card services, Internal Audit and Operational Risk. Abha played a key role in the execution and implementation of the strategic merger of Standard Chartered Bank and ANZ Grindlay's Bank in India. She is a clear thinker who believes in the power of teams and collaborative work practices. During her career journey, Abha has successfully led many new and sustainable business growth initiatives in the operations, Business Service Quality and service delivery domain.

Abha holds a MBA degree in International Business from Henley Management College London (UK) and is also an alumnus of Miranda House, University of Delhi from where she completed her Masters in Science.

Shalini Saini Singh

Shalini is the HR manager for Nokia Money in India. She is responsible for end-to-end design & implementation of people processes & systems at Nokia Money. This includes resourcing/recruitment, performance management, training & development, compensation management and employee engagement.

Shalini' s career spans diverse roles including as a specialist in the Training & Development domain and in business operations.

Prior to this assignment, Shalini was part of the Learning & Development, Organization Development and Talent Management team at Bharti Group corporate office. In this role, she was responsible for talent management & development of the top 50 leaders across the Bharti Group. She also played an active role in managing the post-merger integration during the Zain acquisition in Africa including cross-cultural sensitization and immersion.

She has also had stints with Ernst & Young as an HR Consultant and GE Capital International Services (Genpact) in Business Operations.

Her areas of specialization are Organization Design, Talent Management and Development.

Shalini holds a PGD in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Sripriya Ramachandra

Sripriya Ramachandra is a Director on the Board of Nokia Mobile Financial Services and heads the Finance and Commercial Function of the Company. She joined Nokia India Private Limited in 2007 as the Regional Business Controller (RBC). As the RBC of the Western Region, she handled a business portfolio exceeding US $1 billion, and was a part of the Management Team that planned and implemented Distribution best practices across the region. Sripriya now heads the finance and commercial function for NMPSIPL.

Before joining Nokia, Sripriya started her career with BASF India, as a Management Trainee, where she spent over 12 years, in a progressively growing career, in varied Financial and Commercial functions. Her exhaustive stint at BASF covered Project Planning and Implementation, Supply Chain Management, and Procurement functions. In her last assignment at BASF she specialized in EXIM implications across nearly 800 product lines of BASF India.

With distinctions, state and university ranks through her academic career, she is a Graduate of Indian Cost and Works Accountants and has done her Masters' in Business Administration, specializing in Finance function. She is a certified SAP Auditor of ERP projects. Her interests lie in propagating eco-tourism in the tree-line areas of Himalayas and she is also an avid trekker.