Introducing

Anish Achuthan

Co-founder & CEO, Open
Anish has a career spanning over 17 years in the fintech industry. He co-founded his first startup iFuturz Wireless in 2001, which was into mobile value-added services. In 2007, Anish founded CashNxt which was a plug and play mobile payment and financial inclusion platform meant specifically for semi-urban and rural markets. He moved on to build Neartivity Wireless, an NFC based payment processing platform in 2009. In 2013, he co-founded Zwitch, which was India's first developer focused payment platform, later acquired by Citrus Payments. Anish has also been a part of the PayU India founding team and was the Vice President (new initiatives) and business head (Payu Money- SME).