Paytm appoints Rohit Thakur as Chief Human Resources Officer from Accenture. His appointment is effective from December 2019 and he will be based out of Noida.
Rohit had joined Accenture two years back in February 2017 as India Head-HR. He has over 26 years of experience in Human Resources and prior to joining Accenture, Rohit has worked with Microsoft as Head- HR India and before joining Microsoft, Mr. Thakur spent about 11 years at GE in various roles across multiple businesses.
He has also worked with Eicher Goodearth (tractors division), Bausch and Lomb India, and Cadence Design Systems, among others.
Rohit has done his B.Com (Hons) in Commerce and holds a postgraduate degree in PM&IR, Human Resources from XLRI Jamshedpur.
Paytm is India’s leading payments company that offers multi-source and multi-destination payment solutions. It offers comprehensive payment solutions to over 8 million merchants and allows consumers to make payments from any bank account to any bank account at 0% fee. Owned by India’s largest mobile-internet firm One97 Communications.
Paytm was founded by Vijay Shekhar Sharma and is headquartered in the National Capital Region, India. Its investors include SoftBank, SAIF Partners, Alibaba Group and Ant Financial.
