Uday Kumar Jayanthi is the Director of Digital Lending and Partnerships, Accion Advisory. In this role, he is responsible for the design and implementation of digital lending programmes that cater specifically to micro and small enterprise (MSE) customers across India and Southeast Asia. His role encompasses the critical tasks of defining the structure of lending products, streamlining customer onboarding processes, and establishing operational procedures to ensure the effective delivery of these digital lending solutions.
Prior to his current role at Accion, Uday served as the Head of Lending at Agriaku, an Agri-tech platform based in Jakarta, Indonesia. His professional journey also includes experience of working with organisations such as Ula in Indonesia, as well as Udaan and Flipkart in India. In these roles, he was actively involved in building and managing credit programmes for the micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) segment. Over the course of more than 11 years, Uday has accumulated extensive experience working with e-commerce platforms and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) in both India and Indonesia.
Based out of Mumbai, India, Uday holds a master’s degree in business administration from NMIMS, Mumbai.