California, USA – Fintech Nium has appointed Robin Gandhi, former vice president of payments at travel management and expense management firm TripActions, to be its new chief product officer.

In his new role, Gandhi will be responsible for defining and executing product strategy to expand leadership in existing markets and pursue new addressable markets for Nium. His role includes end-to-end product life cycle ownership, from product vision and strategy to oversight of technology development. Gandhi will work closely across Nium to ensure continued customer success and market share growth. 

During his stint at TripActions, Gandhi has led the product, engineering, design, and operations efforts for the firm’s Liquid offering, which is the next-generation payments and issuing platform that powers TripActions travel capabilities and end-to-end expense management product. 

Prior to this, Gandhi was at the Dutch payment platform Adyen, where he was the general manager of its global issuing offering, managing go-to-market and product, as well as running acquiring, product, data, and partnerships for North America. He has also worked with global card schemes, banks, financial institutions, and third-party partners that make omnichannel commerce possible for their merchants across the globe. 

Commenting on his appointment, Gandhi said, “I couldn’t be more excited to join Nium and continue delivering on its promise of simplifying the payments experience for businesses and powering frictionless commerce.”

Meanwhile, Prajit Nanu, Nium’s CEO and co-founder, said, “Robin is a deeply experienced leader with an incredible vision for product management and a wealth of industry knowledge across the payments ecosystem. He will be an essential part of our leadership team and I’m personally looking forward to seeing him take our product efforts to the next level.”