Leadership

The team building
the next decade of Open.

Founders since 2017. Operators every day since. Same four people, deeper conviction, bigger ambition.

Bengaluru · India
Founders

Four co-founders. Nine years. One platform.

The team that started Open in 2017 is still building it together — every product line still runs through them.

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Anish Achuthan

Co-founder & CEO

Anish has been building fintech infrastructure for India since 2007 — three companies before Open, all in banking and payments. He leads Open's product, strategy, and bank relationships.

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Mabel Chacko

Co-founder & COO

Mabel runs Open's operations, regulatory affairs, and enterprise delivery. Her work with HDFC, Axis, and ICICI built the playbook for Open's enterprise platform.

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Ajeesh Achuthan

Co-founder & CTO

Ajeesh leads Open's engineering, infrastructure, and now AI agents. He architected the substrate that powers Smart Statement, Smart Ledger, and the agent stack.

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Deena Jacob

Co-founder & CFO

Deena leads Open's finance, fundraising, and treasury. She's also Open's first internal customer — every Smart Ledger feature gets validated against her own books first.

Beyond the founding team

Operators with a banker's discipline.

Open's senior team is built around veterans from Tier-1 banks, marquee fintechs, and the consultancies that built India's digital banking stack.

Banking partnerships

Ex-Tier-1 bankers leading our enterprise pods.

Senior leaders from HDFC, ICICI, Axis, and SBI run our enterprise delivery teams — each pod owns one banking partner end to end.

Engineering

Distributed-systems and ML veterans.

Our engineering org spans payment systems, distributed ledgers, real-time data, and now agentic ML. Many veterans of Razorpay, Stripe India, Google.

Compliance & risk

Chartered accountants and ex-RBI leaders.

Compliance is led by senior CAs and ex-regulators who've sat on the other side. The risk function is what makes the supervised-by-design model trustworthy.

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Build the finance OS
India deserves.

We're hiring across engineering, product, design, compliance, and enterprise delivery.

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