BeatO

Prior to joining BeatO, Siddharth Sehgal worked with EY (Ernst and Young), India as an Associate Partner, International Tax and Transaction Services

BeatO, announced the appointment of Siddharth Sehgal as its new CFO, on 29 November. It is a comprehensive digital care platform for controlling and reversing diabetes.

Sehgal comes with more than a decade of leadership experience and 20 years of rich and diverse experience in M&A, financial planning and analysis, tax and regulatory matters. He will be responsible for re-orienting the finance function commensurate with BeatO’s scale up plans and assisting in charting out long term strategy at BeatO.

The Co-Founder of BeatO, Gautam Chopra speaking on his appointment, said, “We are pleased to on board Siddharth as our Chief Financial Officer. His in-depth knowledge and diverse experience will help BeatO in charting its strategic direction and priming the organization for our aggressive growth plans. Siddharth will also be developing a process led organization with a strong governance framework.”

Previously, Sehgal was working with EY (Ernst and Young) India as an Associate Partner, where he assisted clients in transaction structuring, deal execution and tax and regulatory matters, before joining BeatO.

Also, he has served various leadership roles in professional services with M&A as domain expertise, prior to EY.

Siddharth Sehgal commenting on his appointment said, “I am inspired by their mission and enthusiasm. BeatO have built a great team and a solid product. I look forward to contributing with my experience as we build BeatO for its next phase of growth.”

The company has recently raised 33 million dollars and is looking at strengthening their leadership further, as more roles open up within the company. Along with this appointment, BeatO has also hired fresh talent from B-schools including ISB (India School of Business), where BeatO was present on Day Zero and did hiring for roles across Product, Growth and the Founders Office to keep the momentum going.