Pratyush is the Head of Merchant Payments at GoTo Financial. He joined Gojek in 2020 and currently oversees GoTo Financial’s suite of merchant payment solutions, including Indonesia’s largest payment gateway Midtrans and point-of-sale device GoBiz PLUS, among others. With an aim to help more micro, small and medium enterprises in the region digitise and access new opportunities, Pratyush focuses on growing GoTo Financial’s merchant payments solutions, ensuring that they meet the needs of all types of merchants – from enterprise to the smallest sellers.

A seasoned expert in the payments industry, Pratyush was most recently the General Manager of Asia at Poynt, a point-of-sale terminal provider. Based in San Francisco, Singapore and Bangalore, he worked on defining market penetration strategy, product strategy, point-of-sale applications, terminal management and new partner acquisition across a wide range of markets, covering India, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

Prior to that, Pratyush was the Founder and CEO of MagicX, an AI-enabled chat platform for commerce transactions, and the Vice President (Business and Payments) at Paytm, India’s most widely used payments app. Earlier in his career, he also worked for a range of other companies, including Xerox PARC and Microsoft.

Pratyush holds a MBA in Finance, Systems and Marketing from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.