Freecharge - Current Affairs Questions and Answers

1)   Who has been appointed as the COO of FreeCharge on 22nd March?

a. Rahul Yadav
b. Jason Kothari
c. Ankit Khanna
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Ankit Khanna

Explanation:
FreeCharge on March 22, 2017 announced promotion of Ankit Khanna to Chief Operating Officer of the company.

Ankit will be managing product, user growth, user experience and business development at Freecharge.

Before taking charge as the COO, Ankit was the Chief Product Officer with the company.

Prior to this, he was the Senior Vice President, Product at Snapdeal and has been with Snapdeal since the company's inception in 2010, where he joined as the Product head.

Ankit holds a Bachelors in technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Before joining Snapdeal, Ankit also co-founded Itasveer in 2006, an online solution for photo printing which was later acquired by a Pune based IT Services company.

FreeCharge: Know More

  • Status: Acquired by Snapdeal on April 8, 2015
  • Total Equity Funding: $174.22M in 5 Rounds from 6 Investors
  • Headquarters: Mumbai
  • Description: FreeCharge is a service that gives users coupons for charging their mobile plans.
  • Founders: Sandeep Tandon, Kunal Shah
  • Categories: Internet, Coupons, Payments
  • Website: https://www.freecharge.in
2)   Who has been appointed the CEO of FreeCharge?

a. Rahul Yadav
b. Jason Kothari
c. Binny Bansal
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Jason Kothari

Explanation:
Snapdeal has appointed former online real estate portal Housing.com executive Jason Kothari to the position of Chief Executive Officer of its digital payments subsidiary Freecharge.

It is also committing to invest a further $20 million into the firm.

Kothari’s appointment to the role comes a month after former Freecharge CEO Govind Rajan quit the company.

This is amid growing concerns of Freecharge losing out to larger rival Paytm in India’s fast growing digital payments space.

FreeCharge

  • Owner : Snapdeal
  • Founded : August 2010
  • Founder : Kunal Shah , Sandeep Tandon
  • Headquarters : Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
3)   Freecharge is a digital payment platform which has announced its partnership with which bus aggregator platform?

a. Shivaneri
b. Shuttl
c. Move
d. Travelz
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Shuttl

Explanation:
Freecharge, a digital payment platform on 14th July 2016 announced the partnership with bus aggregator platform Shuttle to help 15,000 commuters in Delhi-NCR engage in cashless commuting

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