He will lead and manage the technology initiatives for the group
Gaurav Sharma has joined Poonawalla Fincorp (formerly Magma Fincorp) as Group Chief Technology Officer. Gaurav will lead and manage the technology initiatives for the group and further solidify the group’s commitment of creating a world class digital technology-based platform for financial services.
Gaurav, a mechanical engineer from IIT (Roorkee), was last associated with L&T Financial Services as Chief Technology Officer and was responsible for leading transformation initiatives cutting across multiple lines of businesses and functions. He has successfully led technology and its applications to create new business opportunities and solve real-world problems. He comes with over 25 years of experience in implementation of loan origination systems, collection systems, loan administration systems, business operations, and customer servicing platforms across all retail lending businesses. He has been instrumental in setting up and implementing cloud computing, data lake for advanced analytics and ERP system along with various other organization wide system initiatives. He has also previously worked with Max Life as Head of Product Development and TCS as technology lead.
Gaurav Sharma said, “I am sure technology will be instrumental in the high-growth trajectory that we have envisaged for our businesses.”
