Fintech major BharatPe has appointed Himanshu Verma as Head of its POS business.

Verma brings over two decades of experience across payments, telecom, and consumer technology, with prior roles at Pine Labs, Freecharge, Indepay Networks, Bharti Airtel, Samsung India, Uninor, and Vodafone.

In his most recent role at Pine Labs, he served as Senior Director and National Business Head for Soundbox (Mini), where he led the launch and scale-up of the product.

At BharatPe, he will lead the POS vertical, focusing on merchant acquisition, strengthening distribution, and scaling offline payment solutions.

The appointment comes as BharatPe increases its focus on offline payments, which continue to see adoption across small merchants and retail businesses.

Founded in 2018, BharatPe operates a network of over 1.7 crore merchants across 450 cities. The company processes over 450 million UPI transactions per month, with a monthly transaction value of around Rs 12,000 crore.