| | NOVEMBER 20219CLEAR ROPES-IN GOWRI SHANKAR NAGARAJAN AS ITS EVP - ENTERPRISE BUSINESSIN FOCUSBY CEO INSIGHTS TEAMI'm looking forward to building and growing a network that connects vendors, customers, distributors, and accountants on a single platformFintech SaaS firm, Clear has appointed Gowri Shankar Nagarajan as its new EVP - Enter-prise Business in a bid to expand its enter-prise solutions portfolio. In his new role, he would be responsible for expanding finan-cial products that is likely to fulfil compliance and other financial needs of enterprises. Gowri brings over 15 years of experience across senior roles at startups: Medlife, InMobi and McKinsey. He has also co-founded Roofandfloor, an online real estate startup.Archit Gupta, CEO, Clear says, "Clear wants to build India's largest B2B business network. After consolidating dominance in the compliance space, we are now diversifying into invoices, payments and credit for millions of businesses. Nagarajan's product, business, and growth expertise will be immensely valuable for us in this mission".Clear has now diversified to make software for invoices, payments and credit for millions of businesses, their supply chains, accountants and employees. It is building a single platform to con-nect Clear's customers with their business partners - vendors, customers, distributors, and accountants. Through this network, the firm will solve for use cases across procurement, invoicing, payments, and collections, and Nagarajan will lead this busi-ness. On his new role, Nagarajan says, "I'm look-ing forward to building and growing a network that connects vendors, customers, distributors, and accountants on a single platform".Currently, Clear processes about 10 percent of India's B2B invoices with over $300 billion in trade value every year and more than 10 percent of In-dia's overall income tax returns. The firm's inves-tors include Kora Capital, Stripe, Y Combinator, and Elevation Capital.
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