Cashfree Payments brings Visa India's Sameer Gandhi as CFO
13 Apr 2026, 03:05 PMThe CFO position at Cashfree had fallen vacant since October last year after Piyush Anchliya had stepped down just few months after taking over the role.
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Cashfree Payments has appointed Sameer Gandhi as its new Chief Financial Officer.
Gandhi joins the payments infrastructure company with more than 20 years of experience spanning global financial institutions, and will take charge of financial strategy with a focus on operational efficiency and revenue planning.
Prior to this appointment, Gandhi was Head of Finance at Visa India, where he oversaw financial operations and planning.
Earlier, Gandhi worked at Vodafone as General Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis for its enterprise and carrier divisions. Previously, he held a Senior M&A Analyst role at ING Australia. He started his professional journey at Crisil in 2000 and next joined Citigroup.
The CFO position at Cashfree had fallen vacant since October last year after Piyush Anchliya had stepped down just few months after taking over the role.
Anchliya had replaced Vikas Guru, who had served as CFO at Cashfree for nearly four years.
The Bengaluru-based startup saw its operating revenue drop to Rs 640 crore in FY25 as compared with Rs 643 crore in FY24, as per its filings.
Last year, Cashfree raised $53 million in its Series C funding round led by Krafton with Apis Growth Fund II also participating.
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