Suresh Sethi to head NSDL e-Governance Infrastructure as the MD and CEO

Suresh Sethi is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at NSDL e-Governance Infrastructure Limited. He assumed his current role in the company in February, 2021. Sethi has over three decades of diversified global experience in the financial services industry.

In his last role, Sethi was the Additional Secretary, Government of India and Founder Chief Executive Officer of India Post Payments Bank. He has been credited with creating the largest inter-operable banking infrastructure for public good at scale. He was a part of India Post Payments Bank for more than two and half years and was pivotal in the bank’s development.

Before joining India Post Payments Bank, Sethi worked in Vodafone M-Pesa Limited as its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer for over 4 years. He was responsible for defining and developing the M-Pesa business strategy for India, shaping the digital and mobile payments space in the country and establishing M-Pesa as a dominant player.

In his earlier stints, Suresh Sethi has worked with some of the leading financial services companies such as Citigroup and YES Bank across India, Kenya, UK, Argentina and USA. He has held senior CXO and Managing Director level positions at regional & global levels across business strategy, product development, sales & client management and operations. He has also been a key industry spokesperson and is closely engaged with the government and regulatory institutions in policy formulation in a rapidly evolving industry.

For his contributions to the financial services sector, Mr. Sethi has been recognized by The Asian Banker and is part of The Asian Banker’s ‘List of Leading Practitioners’. He was also recognized as the CEO of the Year (India Post Payments Bank) at the India Banking Summit & Awards, 2019.