Chime is happy to announce that Madhu Muthukumar has joined the corporate as our first Chief Product Officer (CPO). This appointment furthers our dedication to creating the subsequent wave of progressive services and products essential to our members’ wants and our long-term success as we proceed to scale. Madhu brings over a decade of expertise driving progressive product growth at shopper, fintech and B2B software program firms, the place he harnessed the ability of rising know-how to launch merchandise and experiences that a whole lot of thousands and thousands of individuals love worldwide.
As our first CPO, Madhu will work to advance Chime’s aggressive place and construct upon our mission to supply on a regular basis banking and cost companies which can be useful, straightforward and free. Along with the product administration, design and person analysis groups, he’ll construct on Chime’s current product momentum and push our firm into the subsequent chapter of our product roadmap to launch much more progressive choices that align with members’ wants and disrupt legacy monetary companies for the good thing about all.
“I’m thrilled to welcome Madhu Muthukumar to our group as Chime’s first CPO. With a large breadth of publicity to completely different industries and person bases, Madhu understands what it takes to construct member-focused merchandise. I’m extremely excited to work with him to proceed to deal with our members’ greatest ache factors by way of progressive options.”
– Ryan King, Chime Co-founder
Madhu joins Chime following his function as CPO at Notion, the place he oversaw product administration, product design, analysis and product partnerships. Beforehand, he led product administration groups at Robinhood, Oculus VR and Twitter, the place he launched numerous shopper merchandise, together with software program for Quest, Rift, Go and GearVR, and Twitter experiences like Moments, Developments, Occasion Timelines and geo-tagging. Previous to that, Madhu labored in consulting and has a regulation diploma from the College of Pennsylvania.
“I’m excited to affix the Chime group and construct merchandise that assist on a regular basis People obtain monetary peace of thoughts – together with the 70% of individuals within the U.S. dwelling paycheck to paycheck. The group at Chime has led the best way in imagining and constructing a monetary future that income with folks, not from them, and I’m keen to affix them in making an actual, significant change for our members and the trade at giant.”
– Madhu Muthukumar