A Ex Meta Product Director Has Been Appointed As CPO at Tide

Vinay Ramani, who has worked at Meta, Google, and Uber, is the first Chief Operating Officer of the business banking platform.

Vinay Ramani, who used to be the director of Meta, is now the chief product officer for the business banking platform Tide (CPO).

Ramani comes from Meta, where he worked for two and a half years and was most recently the product director of AR development tools and ecosystems.

Before joining Meta, Ramani was the Chief Product Officer (CPO) at the software-as-a-service company Pipedrive. He has also worked at Uber and Google.

As part of Tide’s executive leadership team, he will drive the company’s vision for its global product strategy, expand its SME-focused offering in the UK and India, and “progress” members’ experiences as the company grows worldwide.

“[Ramani] brings a wealth of experience from some of the world’s best-known technology companies,” Tide CEO Oliver Prill said.

“With his laser focus on product development and his knowledge of international expansion, we believe Vinay will take Tide into the next stage of its development and help grow our membership base.”

Tide released its app and business account in India last December. The company plans to sign up half a million small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in the country over the next two years.

As part of the £100 million it spent in India in 2021, it plans to overgrow.

“Working with the Executive team and the Product and design area, I look forward to diversifying and scaling Tide’s product offering to its around 475,000 Member base in the UK and India, where we recently launched a live app,” Ramani said.