Harinder Takhar serves as Board Member & Chief Executive Officer (Paytm Labs) at One97 Communications. He also serves as Advisor at Roots Ventures. He is an Angel Investor. He heads the Paytm business which was incubated in One97. His association with the company though is way older than his current stint - he staged the launch for One97's first value added service more than a decade ago. Since then, he has worked at Cadence in a software engineering role, at Nokia at a strategy and business development role and at Research in Motion in a product management role. Harinder studied Computer Science at the Delhi College of Engineering and completed his MBA from INSEAD in 2006. He also serves as a board member at Luge Capital.