Posted by New Delhi: Shailendra Tewari has joined GramCover – a rural insurtech startup as CTO. As GramCover’s CTO, Shailendra Tewari will lead the innovation and strengthen the technology in the organisation.
Shailendra Tewari was one of the founding members of Policybazaar. With Tewari on board, GramCover is looking to tap into the $19.31 billion rural insurance market.
His expertise will help GramCover further in creating a seamless ecosystem for the delivery of insurance products including crop, livestock, health, motor, life, and asset insurance. All these will address the needs of rural India.
Tewari will lead the technology vertical to automate various business processes and thus bridging the gap between technology and business. With the new leadership, GramCover aims to make its technology easier and smarter, by analyzing and changing software processes and journeys.
He will also work extensively to devise operational solutions of the sales and service teams to facilitate and enable efficient and timely customer service.
This will help the customers to make informed decisions while buying and helping them in the time of connecting them to the data and services requirements. He will also digitize the processes and put the right tools in place to enable the organisation to achieve business goals.
“I’m honoured to be a part of an organisation that is making a change in rural India. We are solving the rural insurance challenge,” said Shailendra Tewari.
“My efforts would be towards taking technology to the doorsteps of the real population of India. This will need a massive drive for simplification of products and processes, working in tandem with all other initiatives, to succeed,” added Tewari.
“Shailendra comes with a rich experience of more than a decade in the insurance ecosystem,” said Dhyanesh Bhatt, CEO and Co-Founder – GramCover.
With his rich experience in the Insurance sector, GramCover will create scalable systems and processes that will facilitate the growth of GramCover in the years to come across insurance products, payment solutions, CRM and data analytics.
The technology team has always been a key part of all endeavours at GramCover and we believe that this participation will only expand under Shailendra’s leadership,” added Bhatt.