The Fintech platform DPDzero which recently raised $3.25 Million led by Blume Ventures and India Quotient has announced that Jitendra Eklahare will join the team as the Director of Collections Business. He will help the Collections Technology (CollecTech) Startup become an end-to-end Collections Startup to empower Banks, NBFCs and Fintechs.
Jitendra Eklahare comes with more than 35 years of experience in building the Credit Collections Industry in India. He was the Head of Collections previously at Citibank, ABN-Amro, Standard Chartered, ANZ Grindlays where he played a pivotal role in shaping Collections and setting industry standards that banks follow today.
At DPDzero, Jitendra Eklahare will drive the charter of building the most Scalable Collections Infrastructure for India and will lead strategic partnerships with Banks and NBFCs.
“The young team at DPDzero is living my dream, they are disrupting collections with technology that most of the large financial institutions need the most, at this point of time. I am very confident with what we are building as it’s going to make a big difference for large Banks and NBFCs.” – Jitendra Eklahare, Director of Collections Business of DPDzero commented.
DPDzero has acquired large partners like IndusInd Bank, Unity SFB, Manappuram Finance, KreditBee, MoneyView, Slice and many more. They are witnessing a massive growth in collections on their platform.
“We are extremely excited to have Jitendra Eklahare on-board with us, with a common goal to reimagine collections with his decades of his wisdom, we are confident than ever to change the collections landscape in India forever” – Ananth Shroff, CEO and co-founder of DPDzero shares his excitement.