MobiKwik Appoints Saurabh Dwivedi as CTO to Drive AI-Led Tech Innovation
· Saurabh Dwivedi promoted to CTO, to lead MobiKwik’s AI-first tech strategy and infrastructure expansion.
· AI-driven initiatives like product automation and intelligent collections to power revenue growth.
· Dhruv Wadhera elevated to SVP – Offline Payments to deepen MSME outreach across small towns and rural India.
Gurugram fintech firm MobiKwik has made prominent leadership elevations to drive its core business and product innovation. Saurabh Dwivedi, who recently joined the company in August 2023 as Senior Vice President of Engineering-Payments, has been promoted to Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
An experience technologist with more than 20 years of experience, Dwivedi has previously spearheaded large engineering teams at MakeMyTrip and is well-equipped in architecting massive, consumer-targeted platforms. At MobiKwik, he has been the key driver in scaling infrastructure, improving the resilience of the system, and leading the development of products in the payments domain.
As CTO, he will now manage engineering in four key verticals: Payments, Financial Services, Core Platform, and Infrastructure & Information Security. He will also be responsible for the company's initiatives to develop artificial intelligence into core business areas driving initiatives such as AI-enabled product development, automation-driven collections, and customer experience improvement.
“I’m honored to take on this role and help shape MobiKwik’s AI-driven tech vision. With our growing verticals payments, credit, wealth, and gateway services my goal is to build a unified yet scalable tech infrastructure that balances innovation with reliability,” Dwivedi said.
Co-founder and CEO Bipin Preet Singh welcomed the appointment, saying, "Saurabh has always set the bar higher for engineering excellence and innovation. His leadership will play a key role as we scale the next phase of MobiKwik."
The firm also elevated Dhruv Wadhera to the role of Senior Vice President - Offline Payments. Wadhera, who has been heading the firm's offline payments business since June 2023, has grown its presence in small towns and rural Bharat. Previously with Zomato and a serial entrepreneur himself, Wadhera is set to empower MSMEs and SMEs by providing accessible digital financial solutions to Bharat.
"With growth, leadership becomes very important. Saurabh and Dhruv both possess vision, execution, and user depth focus attributes that will shape our next growth phase," Singh added.
