rajnish kumar
9 ARTICLES

Who is steering BharatPe?
The fintech company hasn’t had a full-time CEO since January and a number of its top executives have left recently. Filling the leadership vacuum will be crucial to retaining investor interest.
27 Sept 2023
What are Mohandas Pai and Rajnish Kumar doing at Byju’s?
The appointment of the IT industry veteran and the career banker to the troubled edtech company’s newly formed advisory council is curious both in terms of the timing and motivation.
28 Aug 2023
Dunzo’s in no man’s land
A cash crunch soon after a fundraise and the waning interest of its principal backer indicate that the delivery startup may be running out of options. Separately, Byju’s taps Rajnish Kumar and Mohandas Pai for advisory council.
14 Jul 2023
BharatPe’s personnel problem
Staring at uncertainty and with several top-level executives gone, the four-year-old fintech startup needs to act fast to restore stability across teams.
17 Jan 2023
BharatPe appoints CFO Nalin Negi as interim CEO, Suhail Sameer quits
Sameer will serve as a strategic advisor to the startup.
03 Jan 2023
Dinesh Khara and SBI’s two missing years
Despite having a tenure without any distractions, and without any new focus area, SBI has somehow stagnated under the present chairman.
02 Nov 2022
BharatPe and Ashneer Grover make peace
The fintech startup won’t be filing criminal charges against its ousted co-founder, who won’t contest a clawback of unvested shares.
07 Jun 2022
Meet the veteran banker presiding over BharatPe’s cleanup
There are no happy coincidences. It is remarkable then that a career banker finds himself at the helm of cleaning up the BharatPe mess.
04 Feb 2022
The bittersweet journey of Ixigo
The school of hard knocks is what made the travel startup the gritty survivor it is today, says CEO Aloke Bajpai ahead of a public market listing.
20 Aug 2021