mChek

Executive Team

Sanjay Swamy

Chief Executive Officer

Sanjay Swamy, a Silicon Valley veteran, is the Chief Executive Officer at mChek, India’s pioneer in mobile payments. mChek is working closely with leading telecom operators Airtel and Tata as well as leading banks State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Standard Chartered Bank as well as Microfinance institutions like Grameen Koota, and the world’s leading card association, Visa, to drive make mobile banking and payments in India, Sri Lanka and a few countries in Africa.

Prior to mChek, Sanjay ran Ketera India another startup. During his 12-year stint in the Silicon Valley, Sanjay had also held various senior positions in marketing and business development in Portal Software, Xerox PARC, and Integrated Systems (now Wind River, an Intel company).

Sanjay has done his MS in Aeronautics from University of Washington, Seattle, a higher studies diploma in Avionics from National Aerospace School (Sup-Aero), France. He also holds an Engineering degree from Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, India.

Sanjay is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), the Nasscom Product Forum and the Rotary Club of Bangalore, IT Corridor.

Suresh Anantpurkar

Vice President of Products

Suresh is responsible for all aspects of product development and operations at mChek – and is tasked with making mChek a nimble, yet process-oriented engineering organization.

Suresh has more than 15 years of experience and software engineering expertise at product development companies in the US and in India. Suresh is very accomplished at creating, leading and motivating high-performance and distributed engineering teams and implementing corporate development standards. Prior to mChek, Suresh headed India operations of Centrata, a Kleiner Perkins funded startup in the on-demand space. Prior to Centrata Suresh worked for several years at Oracle, both in Silicon Valley and subsequently in Bangalore. At Oracle, Suresh was responsible for engineering development of the CRM product. Suresh has also worked at Motorola and Kellogg as a consultant in the US.

Suresh has a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and an undergraduate degree in Production Engineering from VJTI, Mumbai. Suresh has published several technical papers in organizational development and in software technology.

John Kattakayam

Co-Founder & Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

John is responsible for the Information security and Management of Operational infrastructure as per Industry quality standards. John comes with more than 14 years of experience in the area of Bank Card Technology and Financial Systems for Both Domestic and International market with a focus on 24/7 Operations, Project Management and Delivery of Service Level Agreements. He has an in-depth knowledge of Switching Systems, Acquiring Networks, Card Life Cycle Management, Quality initiatives like Six Sigma and BS7799, Customer Relationship Management, and various Card Associations (VISA/MasterCard/Amex) Systems. Being a part of the Founding Member team of Venture Infotek he has successfully implemented and operationalized a pan India Acquiring network and back office for card management system for its international and domestic customer banks including the fraud /delinquency monitoring system. He started his career as a software developer for PoS Terminals and was instrumental in deploying terminals for authorization over X.25 Networks (INET).
 

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