Fareed Jawad is the new VP for Payments & Principal Product Architect at Freecharge

India's leading digital payments platform Freecharge has appointed Fareed Jawad as the Vice President for its Principal Product Architect as well as Payments. For this role, Fareed would be required to to build payments technologies at Freecharge, and lead the efforts on building technologies for solving the unique payments problems that India faces.

Before this, Fareed was serving as Principal Product Architect at Amazon India, building the core payment processing infrastructure as a part of his role. Prior to that, he has worked with Flipkart as Director - Product Management and was also a part of the core team that launched PayZippy.

"Fareed's appointment reaffirms Freecharge's commitment to hiring the industry's best talent. We are on a cusp of a revolution to accelerate the FinTech capabilities in India. We look forward to Fareed's contribution in strengthening our technical expertise and payments capabilities with his in-depth understanding of payments sector. Fareed will be responsible for developing products for customers and merchants both online and offline, in line with our vision to be the digital OS for the payments business in India." said Govind Rajan, COO, Freecharge.

Fareed has had a long stint in the payments industry, being associated with it right from the earliest payment gateways with VeriFone in the US. His career path also included stints with large payment processors like Moneris Solutions in Canada and eFunds/FIS.