Meet The Disruptors: Chanddeep Madaan Of Aya Payments On The Three Things You Need To Shake Up Your Industry

It’s important to maintain focus on your priorities. Set just one goal for every day and as long as you get it done in the morning, you’ve already won.

Chanddeep Madaan is the CEO and founder of Aya Payments, a healthcare fintech based in Toronto. Trained as a nuclear engineer at Berkley, Chanddeep moved from California to Canada to build the company. Prior to Aya, Chanddeep was interim-CFO and Chief Strategy Officer at a San Francisco-based payments startup. Earlier roles included management consultant at PwC, as well as capital markets research analyst and data scientist at Fisher Investments. Chanddeep enjoys meditating, yoga and weightlifting.

Can you tell us a bit about your “backstory”? What led you to this particular career path?

I am trained as a nuclear engineer but actually started my career in stock market, fixed income investing at an asset management firm in the Bay Area. That led to a management consulting position at PwC and, eventually, to a data scientist role at a small payments startup in San Francisco. I really wanted to see what it would be like to work at a smaller firm and I’m glad I did. In…