Pankaj Patil

Pankaj Patil is Head of India Operations and Client Experience for International Operations and a member of Aurus’s Executive Management Committee.

In this role, he leads Aurus’s India Operations, with objective of business development in APAC region. He is responsible for the company’s digital strategy, product go-to-market, delivering seamless, secure and differentiated solutions for the digital consumer and merchant, managing the platforms powering these solutions, forging partnerships with technology players, fintechs and digital partners, and future proofing the payments ecosystem. He also oversees Aurus’s ongoing expansion efforts into emerging markets, specifically designed to maximize the company’s customer centric focus through an end to end approach to design and delivery.

Pankaj is an agile thinker with 18+ years of expertise in Technology as well as Strategic Relationship Management, Road Mapping and Project Execution, Product Development and Innovations in payments for Asia Pacific region. With his multi-functional experience and understanding of payment systems, he has built business on payment platforms in India. He has rich experience working on Digital Payment Solutions, Core Banking Solutions, Issuing and Acquiring platforms including networks like NPCI, Visa and MasterCard. In his various leadership roles he was taking care of revenue and P&L responsibilities.

Pankaj aims at bringing new market strategy using the right combination of latest technologies and in demand digital solutions across the globe. Pankaj’s long tenure in the technology field, combined with his track record of effective leadership, allows him to provide guidance and direction for new exploratory projects. His vision and intimate knowledge of industry has led him to many successful projects. With his leadership skills to collaborate with partners and customers, delivery team brings contented results as a unit.

Prior to joining Auras, he was associated with AGS Transact Technologies Ltd as AVP - Projects, Technology and Switching Services and has also served as consultant with Oracle, NTT DATA and HDFC.

Pankaj holds a Post Graduate Diploma in advance computing from C-DAC, Pune and a B.Tech Engineering from Dr. BATU, Lonere.