Drip Capital's mission is to make global trade easy and accessible for small businesses.
Our Leadership
Pushkar Mukewar
CEO and Founder
Pushkar is the CEO and Founder of Drip. He started Drip with the mission of making trade easy and accessible for small businesses globally. Before Drip, Pushkar spent several years in financial services across the US, Europe, the Middle East, and India, initially as a Risk professional at Capital One and then as a Consultant with Oliver Wyman. Pushkar holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MS degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.
Akshay Verma
Risk
Akshay is responsible for overseeing the global risk function for Drip's various product lines across India, Mexico, and the US market. Before Drip, he led the India credit risk team for small business lending at Goldman Sachs' retail bank- ‘Marcus.’ Akshay has pursued his MBA from IIM-Calcutta and holds an electronics and electrical engineering degree from BITS-Pilani.
Piyush Dabriwal
Growth India - Exports
Piyush is responsible for driving India Growth by leading the India Exports business. He comes with 10+ years of experience in the finance field and previously worked with Barclays and Morgan Stanley. Before joining Drip, he also co-founded a D2C FMCG startup. He is a Chartered Accountant and also holds a CFA (US) degree.
Shweta Madhusudan
Culture and People
Shweta drives the People Strategy and Operations for Drip. She focuses on ensuring a fulfilling career experience and building a strong growth-oriented, inclusive, and equitable culture for all Dripsters. Shweta has over 16 years of experience in Research, Consulting and has led various dimensions of Human Resources at GEP - her previous organization. She holds a postgraduate degree from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
Tej Mulgaonkar
Product and Technology
Tej leads Product and Technology to drive the company's vision to make global trade easy for SMBs. Tej has previously worked for two early-stage startups in the transportation and real estate spaces. He also holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay.
Soumyadri Chattopadhyaya
Legal and Stressed Collections
Soumyadri is Drip's General Counsel and brings more than a decade of broad-based legal experience across top-tier law firms, including AZB & Partners and Khaitan & Co, as well as in-house with IHH Healthcare. At Drip, Soumyadri focuses on navigating complex legal issues to optimize scale and growth across the business. He also leads strategy for stressed collections. He holds law degrees from the Government Law College, Mumbai, and the London School of Economics.
Gurpreet Kaur Bilkhu
Capital Markets
Gurpreet is a seasoned professional with expertise in corporate finance, strategy, fundraising and investor relations. With an experience of over 16 years from large corporates to technology start-ups she has a passion for innovation and a deep understanding of the fintech ecosystem in India. She drives debt capital raising at Drip to fuel growth across all business verticals. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from Mumbai University and a CFA certification from ICFAI.
Karl Boog
Capital Markets and Global Partnerships
Karl is responsible for Drip's Capital Markets strategy, including funding and managing strategic relationships with global banks and Drip's institutional investors. He also leads Drip's Global Partnerships business. Karl started his career at BlackRock in New York, focused on fixed income and derivatives portfolios. Prior to Drip, Karl was an executive in hedge funds and asset management teams. Karl holds a B.S. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Varun Chhabra
Growth US
Varun leads Growth in the North America region. He brings extensive experience with BrowserStack and Builder.ai where he led and scaled multiple Growth Teams. Varun is passionate about startups and really enjoys the scaling process. He has a Business Management Degree from Jain College, Bangalore and Postgraduate Degree in Finance and Investment from the University of Nottingham.
Amit Pandey
Growth India - Supply Chain Finance
Amit drives India Growth by scaling the India Supply Chain Finance business. Amit has 15+ years of experience cutting across Sales, Marketing, and Growth for startups and SMBs. He holds a dual MBA from the University of Calcutta.
Ajith Prabhu
Operations and Early Collections
Ajith comes with 20+ years of experience across fintech, lending, insurance, and telecom, most recently at Pine Labs as the Chief Customer Experience Officer. He holds an MBA from K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. At Drip, Ajith focuses on driving more data-driven thinking within the Ops and Early Collections functions to strengthen and optimize key processes.
Shreyansh Somvanshi
Product
Shreyansh leads the Product effort at Drip with the focus on building amazing digital experiences for our customers. Shreyansh brings experience in a variety of product areas such as Risk Management, Customer Acquisition, Lending Operations and Payments. Prior to Drip he was involved in the Instant Payments space with ICICI Bank and completed his bachelors from IIT Delhi.
Vipul Garg
Engineering
Vipul leads Growth, Risk, and Central Engineering teams. Vipul has played key roles as a co-founder in various startups. Notably, in B2B transportation startup, he dedicated five years of his career and witnessed the transformation of the company into a profitable entity. Vipul has graduated from IIT Delhi in 2015, and since then, he has been involved in the startup ecosystem.