Pallavi Shroff joins Paytm’s board of directors

BENGALURU: Paytm has appointed Pallavi Shroff, founder and managing partner of Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas law firm, to its board of directors, saying her addition is key to the growth plans around its financial services business such as lending, insurance and wealth management.

Shroff will join the likes of Kabir Misra, managing partner at Soft-Bank Capital, Joe Tsai, vice-chairman at Alibaba Group, Amit Singhal, a former Google executive, Mark Schwartz, vice-chairman of the Goldman Sachs Group and chairman of Goldman Sachs in Asia-Pacific, Ravi Adusumalli of SAIF Partners, and Eric Jing, CEO of Ant Financial. Shroff has over 34 years of experience in representing public and private corporations and other entities before legal institutions.

“We are building our financial services business, and aim to provide access to lending, insurance and wealth management solutions to a large, under-served population. Her experience will be key to the next phase of our growth plans,” Paytm founder Vijay Shek-Sharma had said.