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title: "Danish M - Senior Associate Growth & Strategy - Cross Border Payments in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Danish M, Cross-Border Payments, Partnerships & Merchant Acquisition., Fintech & International Market Entry | Built GTM Motion from Scratch (UAE, Oman, KSA, Egypt, Qatar, Singapore, India, Slovakia) based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and cursor."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/danish-m-1/share-image"
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# Danish M on Tal

## Headline

Cross\-Border Payments, Partnerships & Merchant Acquisition\., Fintech & International Market Entry \| Built GTM Motion from Scratch \(UAE, Oman, KSA, Egypt, Qatar, Singapore, India, Slovakia\)

## About

I open new markets and turn cold territory into qualified pipeline\. As an SDR\-II at CLEAR \(formerly Cleartax\), I run outbound across India and the GCC — UAE, KSA, Egypt, and Qatar — selling enterprise compliance and fintech SaaS to CFOs and Finance heads\. Most reps own one patch\. I work two, across regions with completely different buyer psychology, sales cycles, and regulatory contexts\. What that's looked like in numbers: • 0\.73M AED of GCC pipeline built from a standing start during market entry • 103% quota attainment across India large & mid\-market accounts • 45% pipeline lift on our GST & e\-invoicing API suite • 400\+ discovery conversations with enterprise CFOs — qualifying for fit, not just activity • 50\+ channel partners onboarded in 5 months I'm a discovery\-first hunter\. I'd rather have one sharp conversation that sets an AE up to close than ten that fill a calendar\. My approach is signal\-led and research\-heavy — I use Salesforce, Apollo, Lusha, Clay, and Power BI to find the right accounts, build the narrative, and run multi\-channel cadences across email, calls, and LinkedIn\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

elevenlabs

gemini

lovable

## Work experience

Senior Associate Growth & Strategy \- Cross Border Payments at Cashfree Payments, Aug 2026 \- Present · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

SDR \- II \(APAC & EMEA\) at ClearTax for Business, Jul 2023 \- Aug 2026 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Key Account Manager Intern at ClearTax for Business, Jan 2023 \- Jun 2023 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Director of Finance and Collabortion at SkillShip Foundation, May 2021 \- Apr 2022 · 1 yr, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Core Committee member in Finance and Collabration at SkillShip Foundation, Nov 2020 \- May 2021 · 7 mos, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Management Committee Member at SkillShip Foundation, Sep 2020 \- May 2021 · 9 mos, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

core committee member at IEEE Robotics and Automation Society VIT, Jan 2020 \- Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Tamil Nadu, India

Finance Management and Autonomous at Team Ojas, Dec 2019 \- Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Tamil Nadu, India

## Education

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology

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