VISA's Navin Chandani joins BankBazaar

COIMBATORE:

BankBazaar

.com, a leading financial website, has announced the appointment of Navin Chandani as chief business development officer. Chandani was previously the senior director and head –segment solutions & consumer experiences – India & South Asia at

VISA

.

Chandani’s appointment follows a series of recent high-profile additions to BankBazaar’s team in the last six months. These include Aman Narain (previously the global head of digital banking at Standard Chartered Bank) as the CEO of BankBazaar International, Murari Sridharan (previously GM – Engineering, at Microsoft Redmond) as the CTO, and N C Vishwanathan (previously the head of partner relationship management at SBI) as head of business operations.

“These appointments come at a time when there is a steady drain of high-profile executives who are moving out of the startup space to more established industries,” BankBazaar said.

“Every pioneering vision needs a strong team to champion it. More importantly, you need a team that believes in your vision, in your technology, and your business plan,” said Adhil Shetty, BankBazaar co-founder and CEO.

“I believe that industry stalwarts understand and can relate to the direction the industry and our organisation is taking, and that is the reason we have been successful in attracting and retaining such talent,” he said.

Based in Mumbai, Chandani will be responsible for business development and getting more partners for the marketplace. A veteran of financial services in the digital era, Chandani previously managed large & mid-corporate, small business, traveller, affluent & millennial segments for VISA’s India and South Asia operations.

Chandani is an alumnus of Loyola College and Symbiosis International University, and comes with more than 20 years of experience in leading high performing sales, relationship, and product management teams in payments, financial services, and digital marketing.

BankBazaar.com hosts a wide range of financial products from over 85 of the biggest public and private sector banks, NBFCs (non-banking finance companies), and insurance companies in India. It gets an average of 90 lakh visitors per month. The company raised $ 60 million in its C-Series funding led by Amazon along with Fidelity Growth Partners, Mousse Partners, Sequoia Capital and Walden International in July last year.