About Swych
About Swych
Swych is a mobile gifting platform enabling users to send “swychable” gifts from their mobile device that can be instantly redeemed for electronic gift cards from more than 600+ popular brands. Swych users can instantly buy, send, re-gift, upload, “swych” and redeem gift cards conveniently from their mobile device.

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Leadership

Deepak Jain
CEO & Co-Founder
Deepak Jain is the founder and CEO of Swych. Started in late 2015, Swych is the world's first global
gifting network allowing consumers and enterprises to send monetary gifts that can be redeemed for
millions of products across 250+ retailers in 5 countries. Under Deepak's leadership, Swych has
quickly grown from an idea to a global leader with 40 employees (in the US, Canada and India) and
more than 1000% YOY growth in revenue. Swych has won numerous awards for its product offering
and innovation at several leading industry events.
Deepak is a strategic leader with more than 22 years total experience and several successful exits in
the Fintech space. His passion is leading technology startups that specialize in bringing innovative
ideas to market and scaling them into a global business, especially in the mobile and Fintech space.
He holds over 55 granted patents and an additional 50 pending patents in payment and security
technologies.
Prior to Swych, Deepak founded DeviceFidelity, Inc., and served as its CEO. Under Deepak’s
leadership, DeviceFidelity pioneered the world's first mobile payment system-on-a-chip module to
convert smartphones into smart cryptographic transaction devices. DeviceFidelity's platform was
certified by Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover and was deployed in over 30
countries. For his leadership role at DeviceFidelity and its transformational technology, Deepak was
named a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2012. DeviceFidelity merged with
Kili in 2014 which became part of Square in 2015.
Deepak has a strong interest in the Fintech, payments, blockchain, IOT and artificial intelligence
space where he is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and an active angel investor and
mentor to other startups.

Firoz Khan
CEO, Swych India | President – APAC
Firoz is arguably one of the best sounding boards in the Indian Gift Cards & Digital Retail industry,
where his track record of setting up "New to the Industry" processes has been in-line with the
evolution of Indian E-commerce over the last 20 years.
In 2011, Firoz founded GCI Network, the largest aggregator & distributor of Gift Cards in India. With
more than 250 Retail Brands, a Customer base of half a million and 500+ Corporates, GCI has
established a dominant position in distribution for its prepaid Gift Cards online and offline. GCI
Network got acquired by SWYCH Inc. in April 2018.
In his previous roles, Firoz has built Future Group’s (India’s largest retailer) digital retail from scratch
and successfully designed and implemented the first “Online Retail Supply Chain” & “Phone
Commerce Channel” across its various formats like Big Bazaar, Pantaloons, E-zone, Home Town,
Planet Sports & Indus League. Firoz was also part of Rediff.com’s (Internet Pioneer in India) journey
from early stage start-up to success where he launched India's first 'Cash-On-Delivery' option for
online shopping back in 1999.
Firoz is an absolute people's person, has a keen eye for detail and is a strong believer in "Keeping
Things Simple and doing the Simple Things Right".
Firoz holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a Master’s in Business Administration from
Mumbai University.
Fun-Fact: Firoz is passionate about motorcycling and has travelled the length & breadth of the
country on his fav motorbikes.
Team

Stephanie Barrueto
VP of Marketing

Harpreet Chawla
VP of Product and Innovation

Linda Yang
VP of Engineering

Meera Goyal
VP of Operations

Krishna Doddamane
Director of Solutions and Projects Management

Kai Xing
Director of Engineering

Nelson Zhang
Director of Business Development, Canada

Tracee Beebe
Brand Manager

Rebekka Rea
Director of Business Development

Raj Shimpi
VP of Technology, Blockchain

Murali Krishna
VP of Business Development, Blockchain

Reethika Sunder
VP of Operations, Blockchain
Board of Directors

Deepak Jain
CEO & Co-Founder

Mehul Desai
Board Member
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