Delhivery appoints Yashish Dahiya and Padmini Srinivasan to board

Delhivery has appointed Yashish Dahiya, Chairman and CEO of PB Fintech, and Padmini Srinivasan, faculty member at IIM Bangalore, as Non-Executive Independent Directors on its Board.

Yashish Dahiya is the Chairman & CEO, PB Fintech. He started Policybazaar.com in 2008, which leads Indian digital insurance sales with over $2 billion of premiums, and over a million customers per month. Before starting his entrepreneurial journey with PolicyBazaar.com, Dahiya was the Managing Director of ebookers.com, a leading pan-European online travel distributor, which was also an FTSE 250 company listed on Nasdaq. Dahiya was also a management consultant with Bain & Co. in their London office. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from IIT Delhi, a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Ahmedabad, and an MBA from INSEAD.

Padmini Srinivasan, PhD, is a senior member of the faculty and serves as the Chairperson of the Centre for Corporate Governance and Sustainability and of Executive Education at IIM Bangalore. She conducts research and teaches courses across Financial Reporting and Analysis, Corporate Governance and Ethics, and Management Accounting. She holds a PhD from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. She is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and an Associate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). Srinivasan also serves as a Board Member and Public Interest Director at BSE. Her contributions include serving in the past as a Member of the Oversight body of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) Academic Network and as a Special Invitee to the Accounting Standards Board and Auditing and Assurance Standards Boards of ICAI.

“We are delighted to welcome Padmini and Yashish to the Delhivery board. Srinivasan’s academic and research background in corporate governance and financial reporting will continue to hold us to the highest standards of governance. Yashish’s background in building a market-leading consumer internet business will provide the Delhivery management team with a founder’s perspective on strategy and operations, similar to what our two other recent new board members, Sameer and Namit,a bring to the board,” says Sahil Barua, MD & Chief Executive Officer, Delhivery.

As part of a planned Board Rejuvenation initiative, long-serving members of Delhivery’s board will transition out in a phased manner over the next four quarters, ensuring continuity and a smooth handover to incoming members. Srivatsan Rajan, the longest-serving independent director who joined the board in July 2015, has resigned with effect from September 30, 2025.

“Sri has been instrumental in instilling a strong sense of governance and control since the earliest days of Delhivery. On behalf of the entire Delhivery Board of Directors and team, we are deeply grateful to him for his counsel, encouragement and support over the last 10 years,” adds Barua.