People on the Move: Naveen Surya and Vishwas Patel, Payments Council of India
Naveen Surya, managing director at ItzCash Card Ltd., is serving a two-year term as Payments Council of India chairman as well as chairman of the prepaid issuers working committee. Vishwas Patel, CEO at Avenues India Pvt Ltd., is serving two-year terms as PCI vice chairman and chairman of the merchant aggregator and acquirers committee.
PCI was formed last year to represent the various regulated nonbanking payment industry players, identify and build opportunities, and address and help resolve industry-level issues and barriers. PCI also has four working committees focusing on issues affecting prepaid issuers, merchant aggregators and acquirers, money transfers and white label ATMs and POS devices.