PayPoint has announced the appointment of Manasi Bhalerao, group product and technology director for digital and ecommerce at Tesco, to its board of directors.
Bhalerao, who joined Tesco in August 2022, is responsible for overseeing end-to-end customer experiences across key online products and propositions and managing global teams of product, technology and UX at the supermarket chain.
Prior to this, she held multiple senior roles at Just Eat, including global senior product director and chief product officer, achieving significant product innovations and leading a global restructuring of product teams.
At American Express, where she spent 15 years, Bhalerao led strategic product development across Latin America and Canada, implemented an Agile transformation and directed a $250 million technology portfolio.
Her experience also includes M&A at Orange Group and retail banking at HSBC in India.
As an independent non-executive director at PayPoint, she will serve as a member of the nomination and remuneration committees together with the audit committee and its sub-committee, the cyber security and information technology committee.
Welcoming her to the board, Giles Kerr, PayPoint chairman, commented: “Manasi is an accomplished leader and will undoubtedly enhance the PayPoint board with her deep experience of online and digital delivery, as well as retail and financial product innovation and management.”