Southeast Asian SME financing platform Validus introduced the appointment of Anshul Johri as its Group Chief Expertise Officer (CTO), efficient 5 April 2023.
Anshul Johri
Anshul brings over 17 years of know-how experience in driving progress and scale for startups and huge corporations throughout varied industries, and is accountable for main the know-how technique throughout the area to propel Validus into its subsequent part of progress.
Previous to becoming a member of Validus, Anshul spent 6 years as Head of Engineering at Indonesian unicorn Traveloka.
At Traveloka, he scaled its monetary providers merchandise corresponding to cost platform, digital pockets, purchase now pay later (BNPL), insurance coverage and wealth administration.
Anshul’s expertise spans throughout e-commerce, journey, and fintech industries throughout India and SEA international locations.
Validus not too long ago secured its first tranche of funds in a Sequence C1 spherical with funding from new, main East Asian strategic buyers.
Since its institution in 2015, Validus claims to have disbursed over US$ 2.6 billion in loans to small companies in Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand.
Vikas Nahata
Vikas Nahata, Validus’ Co-founder and Government Chairman stated,
“Anshul’s profitable and assorted expertise at organisations starting from bootstrapped startups to unicorns and Fortune 50 corporations makes him a useful addition to our govt group as we proceed to drive our bold know-how plans ahead.
We’re delighted to have him on board to infuse a brand new power as we execute on our key know-how initiatives to construct, scale, and ship best-in-class digital monetary providers for small companies throughout the area.”
