Payoneer Appoints Gaurav Gupta as SVP and Platform Site Leader
Gupta will lead Payoneer’s India innovation hub and help advance Payoneer’s vision to build the leading cross-border financial stack for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
National, September 16, 2025: Payoneer, the global financial technology company powering business growth across borders, today announced the appointment of Gaurav Gupta as SVP and Platform Site Leader in India. Gupta will lead Payoneer’s India innovation hub and help advance Payoneer’s vision to build the leading cross-border financial stack for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
Oren Ryngler, Payoneer’s Chief Product & Technology Officer, said, “Gaurav brings over 22 years of experience building mission-critical platforms and global engineering teams across Silicon Valley and India. From founding engineer roles in startups acquired by Cisco, VMware, and Symantec, to transformative leadership positions at ScaleArc, Snapdeal, and Microsoft Azure’s Customer Advisory Board, he has consistently driven platform reliability, developer velocity, and AI-led innovation. We’re excited to see him take action with us and scale our Platform organisation as the backbone of Payoneer’s next phase of growth.”
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India is a priority market for Payoneer, and this expansion underscores the company's strategic commitment to three key areas:
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Building Payoneer’s new Gurugram innovation hub into a centre of excellence for platform engineering, AI-enabled risk and reliability, and developer tooling;
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Efficiently scaling the Platform organisation to support Payoneer’s future growth with a strong focus on performance, quality, and security for SMBs in 190+ countries and territories;
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Hiring and developing top talent in India, creating opportunities for innovators to drive Payoneer’s product roadmap for global SMBs
Payoneer has been empowering SMBs to manage global payments in India since 2016 and currently employs 200+ people in Delhi NCR and Bengaluru offices across multiple functions, including Go-to-Market, Operations, and Workforce Management. India’s 60+ million MSMEs contribute nearly 30% of its GDP and 46% of its exports. Payoneer’s presence can help more of these businesses transact seamlessly across borders, manage multiple currencies, and overcome barriers like high fees, lengthy onboarding processes, and opaque compliance requirements, enabling SMBs to transact globally with seamless cross-border payments.
On his appointment as SVP, India Site Leader, Platform, Payoneer, Gaurav Gupta said, “I’m excited to join Payoneer at a pivotal time when technology, especially AI, is redefining the future of business. I look forward to strengthening Payoneer’s presence in India and building a platform-first, customer-centric organization that drives innovation at scale and delivers long-term value to our customers and partners globally.”
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