02-07-2025
IPO-bound Pine Labs to appoint Avendus' Sameer Kamath as new CFO
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Initial public offering (IPO)-bound merchant payments company Pine Labs is set to appoint Sameer Kamath as its new chief financial officer, according to two people in the is currently the group chief financial officer (CFO) at the Mumbai-based investment bank Avendus Capital . He is set to join the digital payments company soon, ET has has spent over two decades in the financial services industry. Prior to Avendus, Kamath was the group CFO at Mumbai-based broking firm Motilal queries to Pine Labs went appointment comes after the exit of Marc Mathenz, its Singapore-based CFO, who resigned in June, just before the company filed its draft prospectus with the stock market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi).'Pine Labs needed an Indian CFO since the company reverse-flipped its parent entity from Singapore to India,' said one of the persons in the appointment comes with Shalini Saxena set to return to the Gurugram-based firm as its general counsel. Bar and Bench was the first to report this was the general counsel, or the top legal official, at Pine Labs between 2019 and 2022, after which she had moved to crypto exchange startup CoinDCX as its legal head. Now she is set to join Pine Labs Kush Mehra, chief business officer; Sumit Chopra, chief operating officer; and Navin Chandani, chief business officer of the issuing business, are a few of the key personnel at Pine Labs, which counts erstwhile PayU top executive Amrish Rau as its current chief executive company filed its DRHP on June 27, seeking to raise Rs 2,600 crore through a fresh issue of shares and an offer-for-sale (OFS) of up to 147.8 million shares. The company is looking for a valuation of $4.5 to $5 billion through the public issue. It counts the likes of Peak XV Partners, Mastercard, PayPal, and Actis among its major shareholders.
