Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, April 2026 — Varun Khullar has started a new position as Chief Revenue Officer at Yubi Group. In this role, he is leading revenue for the group as it continues to expand its AI-powered operating system for financial services. His appointment marks a significant leadership addition for the company as it scales its presence across lending, underwriting, collections, and broader financial services transformation.
Before taking on this role, Varun Khullar served at LeadSquared as Senior Vice-President and Business Head – BFSI, where he led the company’s largest and fastest-growing business segment. During his tenure, he drove enterprise-focused growth, strengthened consultative selling, improved software usage among top customers, and helped position the business as an end-to-end lending stack for the BFSI sector. He also led innovation efforts around loan origination systems and service cloud offerings, contributing to business expansion and stronger customer impact.
Earlier, he spent more than four years at LinkedIn, where he held leadership roles including Director, Business Development – Growth Partnerships (APAC) and Head of Business Development – LinkedIn Events & Groups. In these assignments, he worked on growth strategy, product-linked partnerships, and cross-functional initiatives that contributed to membership expansion in India. He played a role in major initiatives such as student growth, Hindi-language rollout, and Aadhaar-based identity verification, while also helping shape product strategy and roadmap discussions with senior leadership. He also briefly served as Board Member at PinCap.
Prior to that, Varun Khullar held senior leadership roles at Paytm, where he served as Vice President – Business and Vice President, Paytm Payments Bank. At Paytm, he led the education business and helped scale it significantly, while also being part of the core team that set up Paytm Payments Bank and led important partnership evaluations across financial products. Before Paytm, he worked at Boston Scientific in a series of business and marketing leadership roles, including Regional Marketing Manager, Asia Pacific Middle East and Africa – Urology and Pelvic Health, Business Head – Peripheral Interventions, Business Head – Urology, and Senior Manager, Strategic Marketing. These roles gave him broad experience across P&L leadership, regional marketing, business launches, and growth strategy.
Earlier in his journey, he worked at McKinsey & Company as Engagement Manager and Associate, where he handled transformation, operational improvement, and strategy assignments across sectors. He began his career at ITC Limited, where he held multiple technical and operations roles across manufacturing, capex, maintenance, and modernization projects. Varun Khullar holds a Dual Degree (B.Tech, M.Tech) in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the Indian School of Business. His academic journey reflects a strong combination of technical grounding and business leadership preparation, which has supported his diverse cross-industry career path.
With experience spanning enterprise software, financial services, consulting, digital growth, product partnerships, and operational leadership, Varun Khullar brings a well-rounded perspective to his new mandate at Yubi Group. His appointment comes at a time when the company is strengthening its AI-powered ecosystem to drive transparency, compliance, and performance across India’s financial services sector.
About Yubi Group
Yubi Group is the world’s only AI-powered operating system for financial services, founded in 2020 by CEO Gaurav Kumar. At its core is YuVerse, an applied AI suite powering four specialized companies — Yubi, YuVerse, Accumn, Spocto X, and YuCollect — that together deliver end-to-end AI-based solutions in lending, underwriting, and collections. Backed by leading investors including Peak XV, Insight Partners, Lightspeed, B Capital Group, Dragoneer, and TVS Capital, the company has facilitated over ₹3.2 lakh crore in credit and 3.5 crore transactions, serving more than 17,000 enterprises and 6,200+ investors and lenders while reducing collections costs by 57%. Yubi Group is redefining transparency, compliance, and performance across India’s financial services sector.
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