Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder, CEO & MD of One97 Communications Limited (Paytm)

Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the Founder, CEO & MD of One97 Communications Limited, the parent company of Paytm. Paytm is India's leading financial services company that offers full-stack payments & financial solutions to consumers, offline merchants, and online platforms. The company is on a mission to bring half a billion Indians into the mainstream economy through payments, commerce, banking, investments, and financial services.
Path-breaking Efforts: Vijay turned a startup into a billion-dollar company – Paytm. He has been catapulting himself into a nation’s consciousness with his path-breaking efforts by changing the payments ecosystem in India. When the internet industry was turning intricate, Vijay Shekar perceived a paradigm shift in the process of billing from paying bills at physical outlets to online payment.

Revolutionizing Digital Payments: He, as an Indian technology entrepreneur, has played an instrumental role in revolutionizing the digital payments and financial services landscape in India. Within five years of its inception, he turned a startup into a billion-dollar company – Paytm. When the internet industry was evolving, he perceived a paradigm shift in the process of billing from paying bills at physical outlets to online payment. Paytm enables payment services to consumers and merchants, allows merchants to grow their business using Paytm’s consumer traffic, and provides financial services, particularly loan distribution (through our financial institution partners) to both consumers and merchants.
CSR Activity: Vijay Shekhar Sharma’s vision is to make an enormous impact on the economic condition of the country by empowering the lives of its people. He is also the United Nations Patron for Clean Air in India. He has a focused approach to long-term CSR investments to support various initiatives in Medical infrastructure development, Financial literacy, Response, and relief in times of natural calamities, Upliftment of the marginalized, Education, etc. His inclination towards contributing to the well-being of society actually led to reshaping CSR during a pandemic.