Rahul Mutha

Rahul Mutha is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aurus, a leader in providing innovative payment solutions that are ranked among the top 5 payment platforms of 2018 by PYMNTS.com. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Aurus’ customers include Fortune 500 companies in Retail, Grocery, C-Stores and Restaurant Chains. MassTLC Annual Awards recently recognized Aurus as a finalist for its patented payment security solution, AurusShield™.

Aurus’s origins go back to 2000 when it was founded by Rahul in his house garage with 2 employees. Today the company has scaled up to 700 employees and coming up with state of art technology centre in Hinjewadi, Pune, one of the technology hubs in India. It has been a story of unprecedented growth, where Rahul’s vision to excel and the supportive leadership was the key to script the success story.

Under Rahul’s leadership, Aurus has built AurusPay™, a PCI PA-DSS and P2PE Certified payment processing platform integrated with the major payment processors in the United States and 20 countries around the world. Over the years Rahul invented and received several patents related to security and PCI scope reduction of POS systems and Fuel Dispensers, (Patent# 9424577, 9171304, 9135615, 8543461). AurusPay platform is installed across thousands of merchants in North America, South America and Europe.

Rahul has earned his Graduation in Electronics Engineering from the University of Pune and a Masters in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts. Before founding Aurus, Rahul served as the principal consultant at Emergent (Datawarehouse Consulting Group), which was acquired by Keane Consulting (NTT Data). At Emergent, Rahul focused on performance tuning of large scale Datawarehouse systems and high-density computing platforms. As part of his Master's Research Program with NASA and JPL, Rahul has co-published an IEEE paper on “Modeling of semiconductor devices degradation in outer space”.