Freecharge hires Fareed Jawad as Vice President

NEW DELHI: India’s digital payments platform Freecharge said that it has appoinrd Fareed Jawad as its Vice President (VP) and Principal Product Architect  payments.

In his new role, Fareed’s mandate will be to build payments technologies at Freecharge. Additionally, he will lead the efforts on building technologies for solving the unique payments problems in India.

Freecharge is on a mission to build the world-class payments ecosystem for merchants and customers. The company seeks to work collaboratively with various innovators and emerging FinTech players to implement the most reliable and frictionless payment method and Fareed will be instrumental in driving this with the senior leadership team at Freecharge.

Prior to his appointment at Freecharge, Fareed most recently served as Principal Product Architect at Amazon India, where he was responsible for building the core payment processing infrastructure for the organization. Before joining Amazon, Fareed was with Flipkart as Director – Product Management and was part of the core team that launched PayZippy.

“Fareed will be responsible for developing products for customers and merchants both online and offline, in line with our vision to be the digital OS for the payments business in India.” said Govind Rajan, COO, Freecharge.

Fareed has been in the payments industry right from the earliest payment gateways with VeriFone in the US. He has also been part of large payment processors like Moneris Solutions in Canada and eFunds/FIS where he helped enhance the acceptance and issuance platforms for Chip Card processing.

Jawad said I look forward to creating core payment assets that will help our customers experience a frictionless payments ecosystem in the country and establish FreeCharge as the leader in the Payments space.”

Fareed has a Bachelors in Computer Science Engineering from Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bengaluru