Sandip Basu is Group CFO VerSe

Bengaluru: Leading local language technology platform VerSe Innovation on Wednesday announced that it has appointed Sandip Basu as its Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective immediately. Basu is a deeply experienced business leader who over the past 30 years has led and built several businesses as a CEO and Group CFO. He has built high-performing teams holding them to the highest standards of operational excellence and compliance.

"I am humbled to start a new year, in a new role, with a new challenge to steer India's largest content tech platform in its mission to bridge the digital divide. And with the explosion of digitisation, the scope has only just widened, and reality seems much closer," Basu said in a statement.

"Having been an entrepreneur myself in the later part of my career, I appreciate the opportunity and responsibility as Group CFO to streamline the organisation's internal systems and processes and look forward to creating a world-class finance team at VerSe," he added. In his role as Group CFO, Basu will work towards creating a world-class finance function and team aligned with VerSe's strategic objectives and vision.

Basu's appointment to an expanding leadership team at VerSe Innovation comes at a time where the unicorn is looking at an aggressive monetisation strategy, expansion plans around its family of apps and extending its broad-based tech platforms across other international geographies to serve unmet content needs of local language audiences globally.