Shiprocket ropes in corporate veteran Gautam Bansal as its Head

In its bid to catalyse its growth, Shiprocket, a data-driven logistics aggregation platform has appointed former Shuttl exec and corporate veteran Gautam Bansal as its Head Finance. In his role, he will be responsible for leading the overall finance function for the company along with driving key strategic business initiatives for the organization especially in the areas of data, machine learning and process automation.

Gautam has nearly 16 years of corporate finance experience across diverse sectors such as logistics, e-commerce, consulting, banking and FMCG in India and abroad. He has previously been associated with top MNCs and start-ups including Ernst & Young, Macquarie, InterContinental Hotels Group, and Shuttl.

“With Gautam’s deep expertise across various finance and leadership roles and diverse industry experience, he will be pivotal for the next level of growth we are witnessing at Shiprocket. Gautam also brings rich experience in business strategy and financial technology which will play a key role in helping us launch several new strategic initiatives,” said Saahil Goel, co-founder and chief executive of Shiprocket.

"I am excited to join the Shiprocket team given the unique business model and extremely large potential for disruption in the e-commerce logistics space in India. Along with leading finance for the company, I look forward to driving key strategic initiatives that will help us scale to the next level. I am thrilled to have an opportunity to solve a set of ‘real’ and challenging problems that will impact millions of direct sellers and consumers in the country. " said Gautam Bansal, Head Finance - Shiprocket, on his appointment.

An MBA from the National University of Singapore, a Chartered Accountant and an alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce, Gautam’s vision for Shiprocket is to drive transformation by bringing in data thinking at every layer of the organization. He also is keen to build capabilities in the company around process automation, analytics, machine learning and blockchain. He believes customer and employee centricity is key to building large scaled organisations and envisions Shiprocket to emerge as one of such companies in near future.