BharatPe appoints Insight Partners' lawyer on its board
BharatPe has appointed John Weinstein, principal and deputy general counsel of its early backer Insight Partners, on its board at a time when the tussle with founder Ashneer Grover continues to broil. Weinstein's name was included in a fresh list of board of directors. Besides Weinstein, the board continues to have Rajnish Kumar as an independent director and chairman. Others on the board include Rahul Kishore, senior managing director of Coatue Management; Harshjit Sethi, managing director of Sequoia Capital India; Kewal Kundanlal Handa, independent director; Meyer Malka, managing partner at Ribbit Capital besides the founders Grover and Shashvat Nakrani and the chief executive Suhail Sameer. Insight Partners had invested in BharatPe in 2019 and has an around 10% stake in the fintech Unicorn.
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