Rohit Chadda

Rohit Chadda is an investment banker turned serial entrepreneur and is the co-founder of online food ordering platform foodpanda.com. He is also the founder of omni-channel payments platform Paylo.

Education and Early Career

Rohit graduated from Delhi Technological University (formerly Delhi College of Engineering) with a degree in computer engineering and worked as a software engineer for Computer Sciences Corporation. In 2007 he joined Indian Institute of Management Calcutta to do his MBA after which he worked at Merrill Lynch as an Investment Banker in United Kingdom. He took an internal transfer to India in 2011.

Entrepreneurial Journey

Rohit began his entrepreneurial journey in 2012 when he co-founded foodpanda. Before foodpanda got popular he used to tell people that he delivers pizza for a living. Foodpanda is active in over 40 countries across the world with over 22,000 restaurant partners and has raised a total investment of over USD 100 million till August 2014. In 2015, he launched a multi-channel offline payments platform Paylo which acquired the in-restaurant payments app Ruplee in March 2016 for an undisclosed sum. Rohit believes that execution is more important than the idea to make a startup successful and the key challenge for experienced professionals to work in a startup environment is to unlearn what they have previously learned.

Award and Recognitions

• Aditya Birla Award for Business Leadership 2007-08, 2008-09
• Professional Entrepreneur of the Year 2014
• Young Food & Grocery Professional of the Year 2014
• Ranked 22 on Fortune 40 under 40 most influential business leaders list 2015
• Top 25 Most Talented Ecommerce Professionals in India 2015

• "VC Circle Profile". 
• "Entrepreneur India Awards". 
• "CMO ASIA Awards". www.cmoasia.org. Retrieved 2016-04-27. 
• "Fortune 40 under 40". 
• "Asia Retail Congress Awards". www.asiaretailcongress.com. Retrieved 2016-04-27.