About

Gaurav Arya is a strategic general manager and turnaround specialist with over 13 years of experience in the internet space. He has a proven track record of building businesses from scratch and contributing to financial instruments, wallets, loyalty business, corporate and retail sales. As a multi-faceted leader, Gaurav has been selected by premier organizations to tackle challenges and drive efficiency and growth in revenues, profitability, and general administration. Gaurav's career highlights include his exposure across domains, embracing the responsibilities of corporate and retail sales, client servicing, negotiation and follow-up activities. He has a distinguished career that reflects continual advancement, leadership experience, and consistent achievements in driving cost-effective business strategies that produce dynamic business results. He is a concept-to-execution driver and turnaround specialist for restructuring businesses and transforming loss-making organizations into high market share leaders by outlasting the competition. Gaurav is an expert in executing sales promotional strategies such as sales schemes, campaigns, promotion and demonstration programs as a part of brand building and market development effort. Gaurav is recognized for his ability to rapidly identify business problems, formulate tactical plans, initiate change and implement business strategies in challenging environments. He is currently the Co-Founder of Lorien Finance, where he is responsible for strategic management, corporate and retail sales, client servicing, operations management, sales and business development, operational excellence, budgeting management, cost optimization, revenue generation, customer trends management, and matrix leadership. Gaurav holds an MBA in Marketing from IIM and a B.Tech in Computers from Bharati Vidyapeeth. He is currently pursuing an Executive MBA from IIM. Gaurav's past experience includes working as a Product Business Development Manager for EDC and Bank Offers at Paytm, where he established offline business (EDC) to enterprise customers of online (PG) portfolio for PAN India. He liaised with KAM's/sales heads (PAN India) for selling/pitching offline business (EDC) to their portfolio clients and oversaw the product line's life cycle and anticipated any problems.