Venugopal Choudhary

Chief Business Officer & Chief Technology Officer - Credit+

Pine Labs · Full-time

In my role as Chief Business Officer & Chief Technology Officer at Pine Labs, I am spearheading the development of a cutting-edge payment processing platform, integrating modern technology with conventional payments wisdom. An API first payment platform with ease of integration and differentiated payments features, Credit+ is poised to be a magnet for banks and FIs globally looking for a next generation payments platform. This initiative has laid the groundwork for a successful and rapidly growing processing business for both acquiring and issuing at Pine Labs in India. I am • Leading the end-to-end responsibility and ownership of building a next-generation stack and platform for payment processing backbone at Pine Labs. • Instrumental in the 0 to 1 journey for payment processing, setting a strong foundation for a successful and rapidly growing processing business. • Building a world-class stack for powering various B2B and B2C payment use cases, harnessing the power of prepaid solutions.

Chief Technology Officer Issuing Business

Pine Labs · Full-time

As the Chief Technology Officer at Pine Labs, I spearheaded the technology and services delivery for the prepaid and issuing business post the acquisition of QFIX Infocomm. My role involved leading the technology team, implementing cutting-edge solutions, and ensuring the smooth operation of services to drive business growth.

Founder and Managing Director

Qfix Infocomm Private Ltd. · Full-time

As the Founder and Managing Director of Qfix Infocomm Private Ltd., I founded and spearheaded the growth of a profitable startup in the online payment industry, growing from 0 to a team of 90+ and overseeing annual payment collections of INR 4000CR+. My strategic focus on developing vertical aligned features for specific sectors led to the successful acquisition of QFIX by Pine Labs in February 2022.

Vice President

First Data Corporation

Responsible for build, manage and grow end to end management of First Data/ICICI Merchant Services end to end merchant acquiring across India and South East Asia countries. Role involved driving innovation in merchant acquiring platforms and solutions across all these gwographies. Responsible for setting up and growing issuing managed services and processing capability in FIrst data India for large banks using VisionPLUS. Role involved innovation on the issuing platform as well as setting up of the First Data issuing processing capability in India

Director

First Data Corporation

Responsible for building and managing issuing and acquiring platforms across multiple geographies. Instrumental in building a processing centre for First data in China for banks providing processing services on Vision PLUS and other First Data platforms to banks across the region. In First Data India, led the end to end architecture, build, deployment and operations of end to end merchant acquiring platform for First Data India (ICICI Merchant Services) and as well as managed the platforms for First data Merchant services across SEA regions. Built the VisionPLUS managed services capability and support for large banks in India doing card issuing on VisionPLUS platform. end to end responsibility for the service delivery to all issuers using First data platforms from the region.

senior application architect

First Data Corporation

senior consultant

Kanbay

Senior consultant

Capgemini