CoinSwitch Kuber appoints Krishna Hegde as senior vice president for new initiatives

CoinSwitch Kuber, a crypto platform, has announced the appointment of Krishna Hegde to its leadership team as Senior Vice President – New Initiatives. Hegde will play a pivotal role in integrating crypto with traditional financial products, and aim to make the company a preferred investment destination.

"We are in our growth phase and strive to build innovative financial products in crypto and beyond that make investments easier. With his history of building innovative financial offerings for the digital native consumers, Krishna will play a critical role in helping us get closer to this goal. I am glad to have him as a part of the CoinSwitch Kuber team as we continue to expand into new areas of business," Ashish Singhal, co-founder and CEO of CoinSwitch Kuber.

An MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Hegde brings in rich experience in setting up new-age financial products in India. He has conceptualised and built several innovative offerings including Digital Gold, Paytm Postpaid, among other lending and insurance products at his stint in Paytm, where he was a senior vice president.


Most recently, Hegde served as the strategy head at Setu, where he launched an industry-first product that enabled easy and broad distribution of bank fixed deposits outside bank platforms.