PhonePe Insurance Head Vishal Gupta Steps Down As Business Moves Under Payments

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    "title": "PhonePe Insurance Head Vishal Gupta Steps Down As Business Moves Under Payments - ascendants.in",
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    "excerpt": "Bengaluru-based fintech PhonePe is bringing its insurance operations closer to its core consumer payments business, with Chief Business Officer Sonika Chandra set to lead the combined unit. Vishal Gupta , who headed PhonePe’s insurance arm and was part of the company’s founding team, has stepped down from his role. Gupta left the fintech on Monday after spending more than a decade with the company and is now preparing to start a new venture. His exit comes at a time when PhonePe is reshaping parts of its business structure. The company’s insurance business is being merged with its consumer payments business, placing both verticals under Sonika Chandra , PhonePe’s Chief Business Officer. Gupta had joined PhonePe after his stint at Flipkart, where he worked as Director of Product Management for payments and transactions. In a social media post announcing his move, he said he was returning to the kind of work he enjoyed most: building from scratch, solving difficult problems, finding product-market fit and earning the right to scale. The departure adds to a recent run of senior exits at PhonePe-linked businesses. In June, Akash Dongre, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of PhonePe-owned Indus Appstore, stepped down. In May, Ujjwal Jain, Chief Executive Officer of PhonePe’s stockbroking platform Share.Market, also quit. The leadership changes come alongside a pause in PhonePe’s...",
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