Bengaluru: Two senior executives have quit fintech<\/a> firm BharatPe<\/a>, which has been embroiled in controversy since the start of the year.
Chief revenue officer Nishit Sharma and head of institutional debt Chandrima Dhar left the company in recent weeks citing personal reasons, people in the know told ET.
“It is still not known whether the company will look to replace these individuals or club some of their functions under the incoming chief financial officer,” one of the people said.
BharatPe did not respond to ET’s queries till press time Wednesday.
While Sharma has been associated with the company since July 2019, Dhar joined in September 2020. During his stint, Sharma was supervising the revenue strategy for its lending and point-of-sale division, BharatPe Swipe.
Dhar was responsible for managing debt procurement as well as handling relationships with its partners in venture debt, non-banking finance and development finance.
BharatPe has been looking for a CFO and said in May that it was in the process to finalise a candidate by the end of the ongoing quarter. Meanwhile, it appointed an executive from professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal as interim CFO.
The company has undergone several rounds of audits in the past few months and has been focusing on bringing new measures to its governance practices.
Bengaluru: Two senior executives have quit fintech<\/a> firm BharatPe<\/a>, which has been embroiled in controversy since the start of the year.
Chief revenue officer Nishit Sharma and head of institutional debt Chandrima Dhar left the company in recent weeks citing personal reasons, people in the know told ET.
“It is still not known whether the company will look to replace these individuals or club some of their functions under the incoming chief financial officer,” one of the people said.
BharatPe did not respond to ET’s queries till press time Wednesday.
While Sharma has been associated with the company since July 2019, Dhar joined in September 2020. During his stint, Sharma was supervising the revenue strategy for its lending and point-of-sale division, BharatPe Swipe.
Dhar was responsible for managing debt procurement as well as handling relationships with its partners in venture debt, non-banking finance and development finance.
BharatPe has been looking for a CFO and said in May that it was in the process to finalise a candidate by the end of the ongoing quarter. Meanwhile, it appointed an executive from professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal as interim CFO.
The company has undergone several rounds of audits in the past few months and has been focusing on bringing new measures to its governance practices.
It has seen intense investor and media scrutiny after cofounder Ashneer Grover<\/a> in January sought damages from Kotak Mahindra Bank<\/a> managing director Uday Kotak<\/a>, alleging that the lender refused him financing for a personal investment in Nykaa<\/a>’s IPO last November.
At the end of January, BharatPe’s board hired independent auditors A&M and PricewaterhouseCoopers after receiving complaints from an internal whistle-blower on alleged financial malpractices and corporate misgovernance at the firm. This led to the ouster of the company’s head of controls, Madhuri Jain<\/a>, who is also Grover’s wife. Grover himself resigned from the company and its board in March.
Last month, the company made a statement that it served notices to several of its merchants who, it alleged, were involved in incorrect or inflated invoices, and said it established a new vendor procurement policy. It also laid off several employees who were directly involved with these blocked vendors.
ET had first reported on April 1 <\/a>citing BharatPe chairman Rajnish Kumar, that the company was looking to go public in the next 18-24 months.
In October, last year, a consortium comprising BharatPe’s parent Resilient Innovations and Centrum Financial Services got approval to acquire the business of Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative Bank and aid its resolution.
Also, a joint venture between BharatPe and Centrum, Unity Small Finance Bank, had got the licence to launch a small finance bank.
According to the people cited earlier, the focus of the small finance bank at present is to help the stuck depositors of PMC Bank with their deposits.
Simultaneously, BharatPe is also helping the small finance bank to build its backend tech infrastructure to connect with its own platform as well as with other loan origination channels, they added.
According to BharatPe, it is currently serving more than 8 million merchants at more than 150 cities, and processing annualised payments worth over $16 billion. It has also deployed over 125,000 point-of-sale devices across merchants.
The company, which has raised over $650 million in equity and debt till date, counts Tiger Global, Steadfast Capital, Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management, Ribbit Capital and Beenext among its investors. It was last valued at $2.85 billion in August 2021.
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