Sheetal Nehra

Surfpin

Surfpin is a secure payment method enabling customers to pay online for virtual goods and services quickly and safely using their mobile or landline telephones. We are currently available in 43 countries with access to over 2 billion consumers.

• Startup type: Company
• Status: Active
• Stage: Profitable

Sheetal is the Founder and CEO of Surfpin which he established in 2002.

As CEO, Sheetal spends his time on our overall strategy to ensure Surfpin are at the cutting edge of using phone and mobile payments for web monetization.

Prior to Surfpin, Sheetal spent eight years at News Corporation both in London and Hong Kong. His early roles there involved the launch of a CRM management system to handle 10 million subscribers for Star TV Asia and BSkyB.

Internally he then established a Consulting division along with 3 other consultants which in turn advised and sold to the likes of Discovery Television, Bloomberg, Disney and MTV. This division were pioneers in interactive TV including the concept of personal video recorders. It was during this time while working on some gaming projects that Sheetal came up with the idea of mobile and phone payments for the internet and hence Surfpin was born.

He enjoys playing the guitar and singing, yoga and relaxing holidays on a beach when he can :)

Sheetal has a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science along with an MBA both from Imperial College, London.