CredAvenue appoints Mathangi Sri as Chief Data Officer

16 Feb 2022 , 02:32 PM

CredAvenue, India’s most extensive debt product suite and marketplace, today announced the appointment of Mathangi Sri as its Chief Data Officer. Mathangi joins CredAvenue from Gojek, an integrated technology group based in Southeast Asia, where she served as the Head of Data organisation for GoFood – Gojek’s food business. She has rich experience building high-impact, data science solutions and products at scale across large enterprises and high-velocity start-ups.

As a data leader, Mathangi has generated substantial intellectual property by publishing 20 global patents in the area of data science and machine learning. She has headed data science functions of several reputed companies such as PhonePe, Citibank and [24]7.ai.

Gaurav Kumar, Founder and CEO, CredAvenue, said, ”Mathangi’s exceptional experience in data science will help us shape CredAvenue’s journey towards becoming a more futuristic company. We plan to invest significantly in our data platform and empower our customers to manage their transactions actively. Data is at the core of every operation at CredAvenue, and with an agile data science team under Mathangi’s leadership, we will ensure a rapid expansion in our product portfolio through intelligent, data-oriented decision making and building deeper integration among our multiple sub-platforms.”

Mathangi Sri, CDO, CredAvenue, shared, ”I am very excited to be part of CredAvenue’s journey to transform the Indian Fintech space. Data Science and AI will positively disrupt India’s lending and investment space while also helping the elimination of information asymmetry. I am particularly looking forward to working with an energetic and enthusiastic team at CredAvenue and being part of building the largest lending marketplace with such a fast-growing company.”

In her last role at Gojek, she focussed on the data strategy for GoFood by architecting and building several AI & ML solutions which resulted in driving large scale impact for the business. As one of the top 50 AI leaders in the country, Mathangi has also been recognised as “The Phenomenal SHE” by Indian National Bar Association in 2019 and as ”AI Changemaker Leader” by 3AI Association in 2022.