Sanjay Jain

Director

2024

Lead the foundation’s efforts to encourage and equip low- and middle-income countries to adopt safe and inclusive digital public infrastructure.

Chairman, Technology Committee

2018

The Modular Open Source Identity Platform - MOSIP - helps user organizations such as Governments implement a digital, foundational ID in a cost effective way, while embracing the best practices of scalability, security and privacy harnessing the power of open source.

Volunteer

2017

Partner

2018 - 2024

Supporting IP led innovation out of India through the Bharat Innovation Fund Helping the cause of Inclusion through the Bharat Inclusion Initiative Supporting innovation, and products at scale. Previously - Building products at scale - Aadhaar, Unified Payment Interface, India Stack, Google Map Maker

Chief Innovation Officer

2017 - 2024

Helping to create programs to produce, and support new ideas and innovations.

Director, Platforms

2015 - 2017

EkStep is a platform for the development & dissemination of educational materials to help enable India to get to universal literacy, and numeracy. I was a part of the senior leadership team, leading the product organization, and responsible for helping EkStep become a platform.

Fellow

2015 - 2017

At iSPIRT, I have been a part of the India Stack effort, working with the Govt and with entities such as the NPCI and GSTN to help define the APIs that constitute the India Stack. I have been part of the design efforts for UPI, GSTN, and the Digital Locker. I was also a member of the Technology subcommittee of the RBI committee on household finance. I was also a part of the Cashless team, which helped put together the paperless, presenceless, cashless lending pilot – a report of which was published. We have made submissions to the Ministry of Finance, and various committee to help build the stage for reducing the use of cash. I have also been an evangelist for the entire effort, working to educate influencers, regulators, policy makers, entrepreneurs and developers on the benefits of the stack, as well as how it could be used to solve India’s hard problems. I have presented the India Stack work at various forums, including TedX, Hyderabad, National and International conferences.

Entrepreneur In Residence

2012 - 2015

At Khosla Labs, I was a part of the founding team that was looking to create scale businesses for India. As a part of this effort, I helped try out multiple ideas. One of these was spun out as Novopay, where I helped to build the technology team, and the stack. I also helped to build the leadership team for Novopay. I also helped setup the Aadhaar Bridge, a Sub AUA service that is popular with startups.

Co Founder

2014 - 2014

Novopay is in the business of enabling banking and payments to reach the masses through their neighbourhood retailers. As a founder of Novopay, I led the team to build the Novopay solutions stack, including the initial rollout with Bank of India.

Director

2007 - 2012