Santosh brings in 12 years experience as CEO of fintech companies in India and prior to that, 15 years of global management consulting experience. Before the current role, Santosh was chief distribution officer (CDO) of Renewbuy.com, an insuretech company in digital distribution of insurance in India through B2B2C model.
Santosh is credited with pioneering Fintech revolution in India by successfully establishing the BC ( Business Correspondent) Model in Banking sector in India for 33 Banks including top six PSU banks like State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Union Bank of India and Central Bank of India.
First time in India, He got License from Reserve Bank of India for setting up and managing minimum 15,000 White Level ATMs in this country.
Santosh was instrumental in implementation of the national e-governance plan (NEGP) as well as Jan Dhan, Aadhar and Mobility trinity (JAM) improving the standard of living for billions of people in this country. Andhra Pradesh government has rendered his services to successfully implement “smart village" concept in Andhra Pradesh.
Santosh had been in the board of directors of CSC SPV, the nodal agency from Ministry of IT, GoI, for implementing the “Digital India” vision of government of India including digital public goods like e-KYC, UPI, wi-fi till the gram panchayat level. Santosh is an engineering graduate from NIT, Rourkela and MBA( gold medallist) from XIM. He has been recognised as 50 most talented CEOs by Rural Marketing association of India.