Bengaluru: Lendingkart Technologies announced the appointment of Ratul Paul as Senior Director – Credit Data Science and Leena Shetye as Senior Director – Capital Markets. Ratul and Leena bring immense knowledge from the industry in their respective areas and will further contribute to Lendingkart’s vision of bringing MSMEs into the financial mainstream and taking measures to elevate micro-entrepreneurship in the country.
Harshavardhan Lunia, Co-Founder, and CEO, Lendingkart stated, “We are pleased to welcome Ratul and Leena to our team and help forge a better direction for our data science and capital market teams. Rachel’s dynamic experience, focused approach in credit risk management and Leena’s broad knowledge in capital markets make them well-positioned to take Lendingkart closer to our combined goal of catering to the previously unbanked segment, MSMEs and microentrepreneurs.”
Commenting on his appointment, Ratul Paul, Senior Director, Credit Data Science said, “I am truly looking forward to being a part of Lendingkart, a considered market leader in the fintech space. As the industry evolves through restructuring and witnesses new innovations in tech, I believe Lendingkart has the ability to provide SMEs and MSMEs great financial support to grow going forward. In my role, I will be responsible to set up pipes and processes to capture the credit variables in a database, explore new credit models and experiment with how data is used to drive varied tasks.”
Ratul brings over 12 years of experience in Lendingkart and joins from Equifax as an Assistant Vice President – Data Science where he was responsible for building generic fraud scores to predict fraud transactions and build solvent scores to find good credit customers in the subprime market. Prior to Equifax, he has also worked as a Senior Analytics Manager at CTOS in Malaysia where he built and consulted 20+ machine learning algorithms with proven consistency.
Reflecting on her new role, Leena Shetye, Senior Director, Capital Market at Lendingkart said, “I am delighted to work with a group of exceptionally talented and dedicated professionals at Lendingkart. Lendingkart is reshaping the SMEs and MSMEs and empowering them to bring greater value to our country’s growth. In my role, I will be committed to managing and leading investor relations, identifying newer funding models and bettering Lendingkart’s next phase of growth and beyond. My role will also involve discovering new investors and maintaining long-lasting relationships with the existing ones in this high growth period.”
LeenaShetye comes with 25+ years of experience in treasury, corporate loan, project funding, working capital management, and corporate finance. She joins Lendingkart from ECL Finance Ltd. (Edelweiss Group)where she worked as VP – Resources and was responsible for fundraising, banking relationships, and credit rating. Prior to ECL Finance Ltd (Edelweiss Group), she has also worked with EsselInfraproject Ltd as General Manager – Finance where undertaking project finance and banking relationships.
Over the past few months, Lendingkart has bolstered its leadership team with senior appointments. Under the company’s strong leadership, Lendingkart Finance (the NBFC arm of Lendingkart Group) has evaluated nearly half a million applications, disbursing85,000+ loans to more than 73,000+ MSMEs across all 29 states and union territories of the nation, making it the NBFC with the largest geographical footprint in the country.
