Deena Jacob Co-Founder, CFO & Head (Revenue and Growth), Open Financial Technologies Pvt. Ltd
Deena Jacob is the Co-founder, CFO and Head of Revenue and Growth of Open, a fintech
startup, which offers a neobanking service for SMEs and startups. She has over 18 years of
experience in building and establishing finance teams from scratch for early stage startups. She
has led teams across a broad range of functional areas like SME credit and marketing, investment
research, business finance and analytics, strategic partnerships, investor relations, legal and
compliance apart from end-to-end finance functions.
Currently, she anchors finance function of Open along with heading revenue and growth for the
startup. Open is Asia’s first neo-banking platform that helps SMEs automate their business
payments, banking and accounting functions in one unified service to help business owners focus
on their core business. Previously, Deena was associated with Tapzo as the CFO, and with
TaxiforSure and Zansaar.com as the Head of Finance.
She has been a winner of CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) Most Influential
CFOs Award in 2016 and was also chosen in the top 100 CFO roll of honour by CFO India in the
category management controls in 2017.
Deena is also considered a think tank on topics related to financial management and has been
covered by publications like Fortune and Business Today for her opinions on the Budget and
other government policies.
When she is not troubleshooting, she loves to travel.
Deena Jacob is the Co-founder, CFO and Head of Revenue and Growth of Open, a fintech
startup, which offers a neobanking service for SMEs and startups. She has over 18 years of
experience in building and establishing finance teams from scratch for early stage startups. She
has led teams across a broad range of functional areas like SME credit and marketing, investment
research, business finance and analytics, strategic partnerships, investor relations, legal and
compliance apart from end-to-end finance functions.
Currently, she anchors finance function of Open along with heading revenue and growth for the
startup. Open is Asia’s first neo-banking platform that helps SMEs automate their business
payments, banking and accounting functions in one unified service to help business owners focus
on their core business. Previously, Deena was associated with Tapzo as the CFO, and with
TaxiforSure and Zansaar.com as the Head of Finance.
She has been a winner of CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) Most Influential
CFOs Award in 2016 and was also chosen in the top 100 CFO roll of honour by CFO India in the
category management controls in 2017.
Deena is also considered a think tank on topics related to financial management and has been
covered by publications like Fortune and Business Today for her opinions on the Budget and
other government policies.
When she is not troubleshooting, she loves to travel.
