{"id":523774,"date":"2021-11-10T09:41:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T09:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibsintelligence.com\/?post_type=ibsi_news&#038;p=523774"},"modified":"2021-11-10T09:41:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T09:41:20","slug":"zebpay-appoints-raj-karkara-as-chief-operating-officer","status":"publish","type":"ibsi_news","link":"https:\/\/ibsintelligence.com\/ibsi-news\/zebpay-appoints-raj-karkara-as-chief-operating-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"ZebPay appoints Raj Karkara as Chief Operating Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-518768 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ibsintelligence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ZebPay.png\" alt=\"ZebPay\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ibsintelligence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ZebPay.png 200w, https:\/\/ibsintelligence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ZebPay-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/ibsintelligence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ZebPay-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/ibsintelligence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ZebPay-60x60.png 60w, https:\/\/ibsintelligence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ZebPay-90x90.png 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>ZebPay, one of India\u2019s oldest and most trusted bitcoin and crypto asset <a href=\"https:\/\/zebpay.com\/\">exchanges<\/a>, announced the appointment of Raj Karkara as its Chief Operating Officer (COO). Raj joined ZebPay as Chief Business Officer in September 2020 and, more recently, had been promoted to the role of Chief Marketing Officer. With this role change, in addition to Marketing, Raj will now directly oversee Product Management, Trade, OTC, Global Growth and Operations (Customer Service &amp; Excellence).<\/p>\n<p>With this new appointment, the company further strengthens its leadership team to enhance market share in India as well as expand into new markets globally. Raj\u2019s primary responsibility will be to develop actionable business strategies and plans that align with the company\u2019s short-term and long-term objectives. He will work closely with ZebPay\u2019s Co-CEO, Avinash Shekhar, in setting and driving organisational vision, operational strategy, performance management and hiring needs. Additionally, he will work towards translating the strategy into executable goals for performance and further growth of ZebPay.<\/p>\n<p>On this announcement, Avinash Shekhar, Co-CEO, ZebPay said, \u201cRaj has strengthened ZebPay\u2019s presence and business in the crypto ecosystem since he joined us over a year ago and I am glad to have him as ZebPay\u2019s Chief Operating Officer. With his extensive expertise, ZebPay will see rapid growth and global expansion to achieve our vision of becoming become the #1 cryptocurrency exchange in India and subsequently, the world. We are building ZebPay as an all-encompassing crypto company that offers innovative solutions and products to a diverse set of investors, from retail to institutional. I am confident Raj will continue to play a pivotal role in helping ZebPay chart new paths of success and achieve the long-term vision to create a social enterprise with a blockchain-based mutualized structure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raj Karkara, COO, ZebPay said, \u201cZebPay has been innovating and launching new and industry-first products to address the needs of a diverse set of customers ever since its inception in 2014 and I am excited to lead ZebPay as it gears up for further expansion. Crypto is booming in India with vast untapped potential for solutions that will make us a global leader. ZebPay is well-positioned to play an integral part and I am looking forward to driving strategies and building on our foundation of product and customer excellence to be the leading crypto exchange in India and Globally.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":518768,"parent":0,"template":"","categories":[11385,11396],"tags":[11554,16232,11404,16168,19493,15504],"class_list":["post-523774","ibsi_news","type-ibsi_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain","category-cryptocurrency","tag-bitcoin","tag-coo","tag-india","tag-new-appointment","tag-raj-karkara","tag-zebpay"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ZebPay appoints Raj Karkara as Chief Operating Officer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ZebPay, one of India\u2019s oldest and most trusted bitcoin and crypto asset exchanges, announced the appointment of Raj Karkara as its COO\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ibsintelligence.com\/ibsi-news\/zebpay-appoints-raj-karkara-as-chief-operating-officer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ZebPay appoints Raj Karkara as Chief Operating Officer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"IBS Intelligence (IBSi) is the world\u2019s only pure-play Financial Technology focused research, advisory, and fintech news analysis firm, with a 30-year track record and clients globally. 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