About Us

About Us

PayAsia India is a wholly owned brand of PayAsia Management Pvt. Ltd, India. It is a registered outsourcing company providing clients with a single-source business solution, delivering end-to-end HR, Payroll, EOR, and Permanent Recruitment Services across India. We deliver solutions by providing standardisation and integration of services through an optimised delivery model for a wide range of companies – big or small.

PayAsia India is headquartered in Bengaluru. We have regional offices and strong affiliations with partner companies to provide services across India. Our senior-level business experts possess a detailed understanding of business practices, culture and legal requirements globally.

PayAsia India can remove those payroll worries by being your expert partner for payroll across India. We believe that you should focus on your core business model – building your business and let us manage your payroll with a simple, economical and effective solution.

Why PayAsia India?

  • Our focus is to provide a high-quality service that is flexible, cost effective and dynamic to meet your ongoing and changing requirements.
  • Our philosophy is simple – to help you grow through providing process driven solutions supported by our cutting-edge technology.
  • Our operations are spread across Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. This is to ensure we can deliver solutions that meet your local requirements and provide a global business capability with a centralized point of contact.
  • Our team is experienced in continually looking for ways to improve the delivery of solutions to your business challenges.

Our Values

Our values represent the way we at PayBharat conduct ourselves in all dealings with our team, our partners and our clients. These are core to our business and personal practices. We have these simple yet effective values to maintain valued relationships and ensure high level delivery every time.

Our People

MARK SAMLAL

GROUP MANAGING DIRECTOR

Mark co-founded PayAsia in 2006 where he was Non-Executive Chairman until being appointed to the role of Executive Chairman and Managing Director in July 2015. In July 2017, he was appointed to the Board of PayGroup and to the role of Managing Director of the Group. Mark has over 22 years’ experience in leadership roles in Asia Pacific including being a Director and General Manager of ADP in Asia Australia (1999-2003).

His previous senior roles included Chief Executive Officer VicPlas Ltd a Singapore Stock Exchange listed company in (2008-2014) and Executive Director of Omni Industries in Singapore (2006-2008). Mark is affiliated with the major shareholder and is based in Singapore.

LAWRENCE PUSHPAM

CHIEF SALES OFFICER

Lawrence is a co-founder and has been the Director of Business Development since inception. Lawrence was appointed to the role of Chief Sales Officer, BPO for the Group in July 2017.

Lawrence has over 16 years’ industry experience in the HCM shared services and payroll BPO domains, including 5 years with Convergys Corporation and has been largely responsible for the growth the HCM BPO client for the Group and leads the South East Asian Business Development Team and is based in Singapore.

ELISE NGUYEN

CHIEF FINACIAL OFFICER

Elise Nguyen was appointed to the role of CFO of the Group in July 2020 and is responsible for the Company’s ASX reporting and financial reporting activities. Elise has over 30 years’ experience in senior finance roles including CFO positions with a number of ASX listed companies. Based in Melbourne, Justin holds a Bachelor of Business Accounting from Monash University and is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

SACHIN GOKLANEY

CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER

Sachin has been with PayAsia since 2015 in the role of Chief Finance Officer, and was appointed to the role of CCO of the Group in July 2017. Sachin has over 20 years in senior finance and operations roles in Singapore and Australia.

He previously held senior roles with Deloitte (Aust), HLB Mann Judd (Aust), Magellan Consultancy (Sing) and Singapore Offshore Services (Sing).

Based in Singapore, Sachin is a Chartered Accountant (ACA) and holds a Bachelor of Commerce (UNSW).

CHRIS BRUNTON

CHIEF PRODUCT & TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Chris has been advising PayAsia since December 2015, and was appointed to the role of CTO of the Group in July 2017. Chris has over 20 years’ industry experience in the HCM and Payroll BPO industry, including 13 years as CIO with ADP Asia Pacific.

Based in Melbourne, Chris holds both a Bachelor and Master of IT (Swinburne) and is responsible for Group HR/Payroll deployment, technology and client implementation.

CHRISTINE BUDD

GLOBAL OPERATIONS DIRECTOR

Christine has more than 30 years’ experience in setting up and managing HR and Payroll BPO operations. Christine previously worked at NorthgateArinso, MoorepayHR, Ascender and Boardroom in Senior Operational Roles.

Originally from the UK where her payroll career started as a Payroll Administrator, she has worked in Global Payroll for the last 10 years and has lived in India, Philippines, and Singapore during this time.

If you would like to view more details about Christine and connect with her on LinkedIn.

MURALIDHARAN RAMAKRISHNAN

CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER

Muralidharan an alumnus of Anna University, India has an extraordinary passion to use technology as an enabler and helping people achieve superior performance and productivity. In a career spanning over 20+ years he has worked across 21 different countries across APAC, EMEA & US developing, and implementing HRIS solutions to a variety of clients spanning different industry segments. He is a Techno-HR leader with proven track record for over two decades focused on HR Technology with business leadership.

He has served actively in Microsoft Developer Network under various mentorship roles and is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the region. He is a speaker in international conferences & symposiums on HR Technology.

An avid cyclist Muralidharan has participated in long distance randonneuring events. He has received Super Randonneur title offered by Audax, France multiple times. He qualified and participated in Paris-Brest-Paris 2019, a prestigious 1200 km, long-distance cycling event in France. He pursues voluntary work with world bank on helping the women self-help groups break their social stigma and succeed in their small business ventures.