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title: "Geoff Mathew - Head - Product & Innovation in Mumbai Metropolitan Region | Tal"
description: "Meet Geoff Mathew, Building products that move hearts & markets | Product & Growth Leader at Paytm, Razorpay & Shaadi.com based in Mumbai Metropolitan Region. AI stack includes aistudio, antigravity, and claude."
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# Geoff Mathew on Tal

## Headline

Building products that move hearts & markets \| Product & Growth Leader at Paytm, Razorpay & Shaadi\.com

## About

With 17\+ years leading high\-growth product organizations across fintech and consumer internet, I’ve built products that power both emotional and financial decisions; from helping millions find partners at Shaadi\.com, to enabling frictionless payments at Paytm, to building tech\-led credit and lending products at Razorpay Capital \(B2B\) I specialize in scaling retention\-first ecosystems and building growth engines that combine user love with business outcomes\. At Shaadi\.com, I founded and scaled the Product Growth function, transforming it into a company\-wide driver of engagement and monetization, improving conversion and retention metrics that shaped the platform’s growth playbook by 2020\. I grew revenue for Shaadi\.com at double\-digit CAGR during COVID, scaled lending book size by 30x at Razorpay within a year, and consistently improved conversion, referral acquisition CAC while taking 30\-day retention to the highest\-ever levels at Paytm\. I thrive in fast\-paced, ambiguous environments where the challenge is to move fast, think boldly, and execute with precision\. Whether it’s improving DAU/MAU through recommendation engines, boosting P&L via pricing strategies, or launching zero\-to\-one products, I bring an operator’s mindset with a builder’s heart\. What drives me? Creating products that users love, teams are proud of, and businesses can scale\. Focus Areas: P&L • Product Strategy • Retention & Growth Loops • PLG at Scale • Monetization Design • Data\-led Decisioning • Org Design & Leadership Industries: Payments & UPI • Fintech • Consumer Internet • Automobile • Manufacturing

## Location

Mumbai Metropolitan Region

## AI stack

aistudio

antigravity

claude

deepseek

langfuse

langgraph

## Work experience

Head \- Product & Innovation at Home First Finance Company \(HFFC\), Nov 2025 \- Present · 9 mo, Mumbai, Brought in to establish HomeFirst's AI product function from scratch and embed AI across the lending lifecycle, as the company pushes to scale digital\-first origination and expand credit inclusion in a competitive affordable housing NBFC market

Vice President, Product & User growth at Paytm, Apr 2023 \- Jul 2025 · 2 y 3 mo, Mumbai, Hired to lead the product, growth and monetization agenda for \~70M MAU and Paytm Chat, at a time the business needed to convert dormant users into active, revenue\-generating engagement and turn Chat into a profit centre\. Owned vision and P&L\.

Head of Product, Marketing & Growth @ Razorpay Capital at Razorpay, Jul 2021 \- Mar 2023 · 1 y 8 mo, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Hired to transform organization into a multi\-product financial platform by expanding beyond lending into Cards, Embedded Finance and adjacent financial products\.

Director of Product, Strategy & Growth at People Interactive, Jun 2013 \- Jun 2021 · 8 y, Mumbai, Played a pivotal role in Shaadi\.com's evolution from a matchmaking website to a mobile\-first consumer platform\. As the business scaled, my role evolved from building products to shaping growth, monetization and long\-term product strategy of the platform\. Progressed from Trainee to Director through six promotions in eight years

MBA Summer Intern at WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES, Apr 2012 \- Jun 2012 · 3 mos, Electronic city, Bangalore, Designed a predictive model for field force scheduling in Service Lifecycle Management to optimize the overall field force management process\.

Assistant Manager, Vendor development & NPD at Tata Motors, Sep 2010 \- Jun 2011 · 9 mo, Jamshedpur, India, \- Developed the Gear shift for Army’s Mine protection vehicle within 4 months\. \- ₹2\.54 crores of annual savings by alternate vendor developments\. \- Delivered Speed Limiter gearboxes to Delhi DTC within 6 months of CWG, 2010

Officer, Materials at Greaves Cotton Limited, Jul 2008 \- Aug 2010 · 2 y 1 mo, Chennai, India, \- Implemented SAP – MM Module in Materials department for the organization\. \- ₹1\.2 crores annual savings via strategic vendor selection & FIFO implementation

## Education

Post Graduate Diploma in Management, Marketing, Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad

Bachelor of Technology \(BTech\), Mechanical Engineering, University of Kerala

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