Gurbhej Dhillon, a former Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, has been named Chief Technology Officer of Flutterwave.
Gurbhej joins Flutterwave at a critical juncture, following the firm’s recently concluded Series D fundraising round, which valued the company at over USD 3 billion and allowed it to continue its rapid expansion.
Gurbhej, as the new CTO, will be in charge of further developing Flutterwave’s revolutionary technology platform, which presently enables integrations with key technology partners such as VISA, Mastercard, Discover Card Networks, and customers such as Uber, Flywire, Booking.com, and others. He will concentrate on strengthening the architecture and infrastructure, as well as providing leadership that will allow other technical and product leaders to produce the finest solutions that support customer business success.
Gurbhej comes to Flutterwave from Marcus by Goldman Sachs, where he was the Chief Technology Officer and Head of Lending Engineering. He has a wealth of experience in enterprise application architecture in the financial services and consumer industries. He was in charge of building systems to rapidly grow businesses while enhancing customer experience at Marcus, as well as establishing strategic alliances with various Fortune 500 organizations.
Prior to that, Gurbhej was CTO of Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking Capital Markets unit, where he was in charge of the design, development, and implementation of key platforms that allowed clients to execute equity and debt product offerings.
Gurbhej is a strong supporter of the African Developer Community and admires the job they have done recently in developing inventive solutions of world-class quality.
Gurbhej aims to help the Community reach new heights in his job as CTO of Africa’s top technology company.
Olugbenga ‘GB’ Agboola, Founder and CEO of Flutterwave, said:
“I look forward to working closely with Gurbhej as we continue to expand rapidly. With the needs of our customers constantly evolving, we remain focused on driving further innovation across the business and continuing to develop our cutting-edge technology platform that simplifies payments and connects the African market with the world. Gurbhej’s experience and deep expertise in developing financial technology platforms will be instrumental in Flutterwave’s further growth.”
Commenting on his appointment, Gurbhej Dhillon said:
“I am delighted to be joining the Flutterwave team at such an exciting time for the company. As a leading financial technology company in Africa, Flutterwave is well positioned to capitalise on the global trends in payment digitisation and continue to drive Africa’s digital transformation, creating further opportunities for customers and merchants alike. It is a very crowded market with lots of new entrants so it is vital that we as a company continually look to innovate our products and services, improve our existing architecture and create endless possibilities for everyone.”
