Google's Singapore-Based Payments Chief to Depart

He leaves after 15 years at Google, and will explore new opportunities and «start on a new mission.»

Caesar Sengupta, Google's payments chief and the head of its «Next Billion Users» (NBU) initiative, is leaving the company at the end of April, he said in a LinkedIn post on Monday.

«I remain very positive about Google’s future but it's time for me to see if I can ride without training wheels,» Sengupta said in the post.

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Google said the executive «played a key role in starting, building and leading» NBU and Google Pay, which currently has 150 million users in 30 countries. . Sengupta was instrumental in the platform's growth in India, and facilitated a relaunch of Google Pay in the U.S. and Singapore.

As head of Google’s NBU initiative, he oversees product strategy for India, Indonesia, Brazil and Nigeria.