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This list showcases the top United States based VP’ operating in the Payments space. If you think a VP’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Derek Joyce
Vice President and General Manager, Global Accounts of Klarna
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About Klarna: Klarna is an e-commerce payment solutions platform for merchants and shoppers.
Ragini Holloway
SVP, People of Affirm
Ragini Holloway is SVP, People at Affirm.
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About Affirm: Affirm is a financial technology services company that offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
Brian Grassadonia
Executive VP & General Manager of Cash App of Square
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About Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Alyssa Henry
EVP & General Manager Seller Business Unit, EVP Infrastructure & InfoSec of Square
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About Confluent, Intel, Square, Unity Technologies: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Mark Heynen
Vice President, Business Development of Stellar Development Foundation
Mark has led go to market in emerging markets for large and small companies, from Google’s initial push into maps in the mid 2000s to Facebook’s early mobile efforts and ultimately launching PayJoy, a Silicon Valley-based fintech, in 20 countries. He currently serves as VP of Business Development at the Stellar Development Foundation. His focus has been on analyzing markets, structuring transformational partnerships, hiring highly functional teams in market, and then producing revenue quickly with great unit economics. He has also raised ~$100M in early stage VC, venture debt, and SPV debt financing across four companies he built, and advised companies on fundraising. Prior to moving to Silicon Valley in 2006, Mark split his time between India and London, founding and running his first startup, Electrobug Technologies. As this company had clients in 18 countries and 250+ staff in India through a wholly owned subsidiary, Mark learned firsthand of the challenges and opportunities of working in emerging markets, and is currently an advisor for a number of startups. Mark graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College with a degree in Economics and History.
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About Stellar Development Foundation: Stellar Development Foundation supports the development and growth of Stellar, a blockchain network that connects financial infrastructure.
Charles Walton
Senior Vice President, Digital Identity Products of Mastercard
Charlie has been involved in the information security industry for more than 30 years, currently responsible for digital identity services within Morpho’s Government Identity Solutions division. Prior he was CEO of Toronto-based SecureKey and responsible for the launch and growth of the SecureKey Concierge Network. As COO and General Manager for Aix-en-Provence based INSIDE Secure, he was responsible for defining business strategy, driving product strategy and development, and leading the launch of new semi-conductor products. His early career included the founding of Caradas which was a security services company in the bankcard industry, COO at Certco which was the founding ground for Identrus, the founder of GTE Cybertrust, and multiple roles in large-scale secure system development at GTE for the defense industry.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Raj Dhamodharan
EVP Blockchain / Digital Asset Products & Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Rohit Chauhan
Executive Vice President of Artificial Intelligence of Mastercard
Rohit Chauhan is the EVP of artificial intelligence at MasterCard Worldwide.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Andreas Spengel
Vice President International Markets of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Rebecca Ledingham
Global VP/Senior Business Leader Cybersecurity of Mastercard
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About Mastercard, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Russ Barenboym
Vice President of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Zahir Khoja
Executive Vice President, Global Merchant Solutions and Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Lars Albright
Executive Vice President data and services, Global merchant loyalty ( CEO Session M) of Mastercard
Lars is a proven entrepreneur with extensive experience in the mobile and digital media industries and currently working as Executive Vice president in mastercard.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Daniel Ruggeri
Vice President Of Software Engineering – Middleware of Mastercard
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About Mastercard, Washington University in St. Louis: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Ranjita Iyer
Senior Vice President, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
David Galvan
VP, Business Development and Strategic Alliances – US Markets of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Sherri Haymond
Executive Vice President, Digital Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
JoAnn Stonier
Executive VP and Chief Data Officer of Mastercard
JoAnn C. Stonier is the EVP/Chief Information Governance & Privacy Officer for MasterCard Worldwide.She is responsible for worldwide privacy compliance and information governance for the enterprise. Stonier is responsible for identifying MasterCard’s data strategy as an element of the company’s product and business strategy as well as for the management of privacy and data protection compliance and regulatory engagement on a global basis. Prior to joining MasterCard in 2008, Stonier was the Chief Privacy Officer for American Express Company. Stonier received her Juris Doctorate from St. John’s University and her bachelor of science degree from St. Francis College.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Cathy Baker
Executive Vice President of Mastercard
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About Applied Predictive Technologies, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
John Fimbel
SVP of Business Development of Mastercard
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About Andrews Toy Box, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Lance Gruner
Executive Vice President, Global Customer Care of Mastercard
Lance Gruner is an executive vice president at MasterCard focused on global customer care.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Leigh Amaro
SVP, Enterprise Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Len Sanker
Senior Vice President (SVP) Software Engineering, Cyber & Intelligence of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
James Anderson
Executive Vice President – Commercial and B2B Solutions of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Sadiq Mohammed
Vice President, Mobile Payments of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Kiki Del Valle
EVP Market Development – Latin America & Caribbean of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Cindy Chastain
SVP, Global Customer Experience & Design of Mastercard
Cindy Chastain serves as SVP of global customer experience and design at Mastercard.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Shubhra Srivastava
Vice President, Global Product Management of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Trisha Asgeirsson
Senior Vice President, Global Retail and Commerce Loyalty Lead of Mastercard
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About Mastercard, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Chris Merz
Vice President, Security and Decision Products of Mastercard
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About Mastercard, MasterCard Labs: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Matt Miller
Vice President – Digital Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard, Mastercard, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Shari Krikorian
Senior Vice President of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Andrew Markowitz
SVP, Managed Services of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Michelle Hafner
Senior Vice President, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Stuart Vaeth
Vice President, Digital Identity of Mastercard
“Stuart Vaeth joined Diversinet in 2004 and is responsible for product strategy, strategic partnerships, and directing Diversinet’s industry standards activities. Mr. Vaeth has 20 years experience in the information security industry, specializing in encryption and authentication technologies. Prior to Diversinet, he was director of product marketing with nCipher, a leading cryptographic hardware provider. Mr. Vaeth spent the first 12 years of his career with GTE, where he was chief architect for the CyberTrust PKI product line. Mr. Vaeth received a BSEE degree from Bucknell University and earned his MBA at the Boston University School of Management. He is a frequent speaker at wireless and security industry conferences and is co-chair of the OATH (Initiative for Open Authentication) Technology Group.” (Source: [Diversinet](http://www.diversinet.com/html/organization/managementteam.html))
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Ronald Green
Executive Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer of Mastercard
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About Financial Services Council, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Erika Brown Lee
Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of Mastercard
Manage team responsible for working with business units to enable product development while ensuring compliance with privacy and data protection laws across the company’s products and services, including payment processing, data analytics, marketing, digital payments, and fraud-related activities for North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. Conduct regulatory engagement and monitor and analyze pending legislation. Partner with Information Security to revise, update, and execute incident response program.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Amyn Dhala
Vice President Global Head of Product of Mastercard
Amyn Dhala is currently Vice President, AI Express in the Cyber and Intelligence Solutions team at Mastercard. He launched and manages the Mastercard AI Express program in which Mastercard enables Financial Institutions, Merchants and other verticals, adopt AI swiftly and smartly. In his current role, Amyn leads AI Express Product Strategy and AI Express engagements where he collaborates with the AI Express team of product managers and data scientists – right from problem identification for customers to developing production-ready AI models for them which can be deployed. Prior to this, Amyn has over fifteen years in leading Product and Sales Teams globally across Financial Services, E-Commerce and Consumer Goods. Before joining Mastercard, Amyn launched products such as Amazon Pay and Amazon Prime on Your Site at Amazon. Amyn has an MBA in Strategy & Marketing from Yale and his bachelors from BITS, Pilani, India.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Jennifer Rademaker
EVP, Global Customer Delivery of Mastercard
Jennifer Rademaker is the Executive Vice President of Global Customer Delivery at Mastercard.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Stefany Bello
Vice President- Digital Partnerships, Latin America and the Caribbean of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
David Goldschmidth
VP, Head of Push Payments of Mastercard
Vice President – Head of Digital Payments & Labs MasterCard – Geo-Central LAC
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Rina Jariwala
VP of Sales and Operations and GM of Dallas of Fundbox
Rina Jariwalais the Vice President of Sales and Operations and GM of Dallas at Fundbox. She joined the company with over 19 years of leadership experience in the valuation and credit space, including roles at Countrywide Home Loans, Bank of America, and CoreLogic.
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About Fundbox: Fundbox is an AI-powered financial platform for small businesses.
Renuka Nayani
VP of Finance, to lead the Strategic Finance, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), of Fundbox
Renuka Nayani is the Vice President of Finance, leading the Strategic Finance, Financial Planning, and Analysis (FP&A) and corporate development teams of Fundbox. She previously spent six years leading the Personal Loans FP&A team at Oportun.
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About Fundbox: Fundbox is an AI-powered financial platform for small businesses.
Khary Scott
Vice President, Head of Partnerships of Fundbox
Khary Scott is the Vice President and Head of Partnerships at Fundbox. He is an executive with an entrepreneurial mindset that strives to put an organization at the center of the commerce revolution. Prior to joining Fundbox, he was the Vice President for Business Development – Small Business Card at Capital One.
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About Fundbox: Fundbox is an AI-powered financial platform for small businesses.
Shawn Haigh
VP, Growth Marketing of Fundbox
Shawn Haigh is the Vice President of Growth Marketing at Fundbox. Before that, he was the Head of Paid Search for US Card and Senior Business Director of Capital One.
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About Fundbox: Fundbox is an AI-powered financial platform for small businesses.
Douglas Feagin
Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Partnerships and Investments at Ant Group of Ant Group
Mr. Douglas Feagin is Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Partnerships and Investments at Ant Group Prior to joining Ant in June 2016, from August 1994 to May 2016, Mr. Feagin worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he last served as a managing director from 2004 to 2016, with a broad set of client relationships in the US, Latin America and Asia across sectors including banking, technology and insurance. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1988, and received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1994.
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About Ant Group: Ant Group strives to enable all consumers and small businesses to have equal access to financial and other services through technology.
Prahalad Thota
Senior Vice President, Head of Enterprise Analytics & Data Science of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Avid Modjtabai
Senior Executive Vice President & Head of Consumer Lending of Wells Fargo
Avid Modjtabai is a senior executive vice president and head of consumer lending for Wells Fargo & Company. In this role she is responsible for home lending, auto lending and consumer credit. Avid Modjtabai is a 21-year veteran of Wells Fargo where she has served in a number of diverse leadership roles. Prior to her current role she was the chief information officer and head of the technology and operations group with responsibility for the core technology functions of the company including data centers, enterprise architecture, application development, information security and technology governance. Avid Modjtabai has served as Wells Fargo’s director of human resources, led the Internet Services Group and held management positions in consumer deposits and the investment group. Before joining Wells Fargo, she was a consultant with McKinsey & Company where she focused on strategy initiatives in financial services. Avid Modjtabai was named one of the “Most Powerful Women in Banking” and the “Top 25 Women to Watch” by U.S. Banker and the American Banker. She received the “Ellis Island Medal of Honor,” for her outstanding personal and professional achievements and her commitment to preserving the richness of heritage. She serves on the board of trustees for The Branson School and is an advisory member of the Columbia Business School Social Enterprise Program and Stanford Center on Longevity. Avid Modjtabai holds a master’s degree from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University. As a member of Avnet’s board of directors, Avid Modjtabai serves on the Audit Committee and Corporate Governance Committee.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Hope A. Hardison
Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, and Human Resources Director of Wells Fargo
Hope A. Hardison, Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), and Human Resources Director assumed her CAO role in September 2015. She has been HR Director since September 2010. As CAO, Hardison manages Human Resources, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Government & Community Relations, the Innovation Group, and Enterprise Data & Analytics, overseeing the company’s brand, communications, reputation management, and stakeholder engagement efforts. In her role as Human Resource Director, Hardison leads a team that develops and implements people strategies to support Wells Fargo’s business objectives, as well as the management of compensation and benefits, human resource service centers, systems and payroll, finance, team member relations and assistance, talent management, learning and development and diversity for more than 266,000 Wells Fargo team members. Hardison is a 22-year veteran of Wells Fargo. From 2008 to 2010, she served as the head of Compensation and Benefits and was responsible for managing benefits, executive and team member compensation and mergers and acquisitions. She also managed international team member compensation and benefit programs. She has held numerous finance, strategic planning and compensation roles since joining Wells Fargo in 1993. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Swarthmore College and has done graduate work in applied economics and statistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Steven Macko
Executive Vice President and Head of Technology, Media & Telecom of Wells Fargo
Steven Macko leads the Industries Group at Wells Fargo Capital Finance, which includes Technology Finance, Specialty Finance, Lender Finance, and Flatiron Capital. Macko joined Wells Fargo Capital Finance in 1998 and established its San Francisco office in 1999. Prior to joining Capital Finance, Macko spent several years at Ernst & Young, PWC, and Strome Investment Management, an alternative investment strategy hedge fund. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Arvind Radhakrishnen
SVP of Strategy and Transformation of Wells Fargo
Arvind Radhakrishnen is the SVP of Strategy and Transformation at Wells Fargo.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Laura Fontana
Vice President, Product Strategy, Distributed Ledger Technology Program of Wells Fargo
Laura Fontana is currently a vice president and product strategist for Wells Fargo’s Innovation Technology team. She is responsible for supporting the distributed ledger technology program, exploring promising commercial opportunities across Wells Fargo’s diversified businesses and with a variety of business partners and consortia in the larger financial services industry.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Sharon Murphy
EVP, Team Member Infrastructure Services (TMIS) of Wells Fargo
Sharon Murphy is an executive vice president at Wells Fargo.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Puon Penn
EVP/Head of Technology Investments for Wells Fargo Strategic Capital of Wells Fargo
Puon Penn is Executive Vice President/Head of Technology Capital which provides expertise, financial services, and resources to help innovative companies focus on advancing new technologies and business models to solve some of the most complex problems facing humanity including global population growth, climate change and environmental impacts, and the ongoing fight against diseases. Puon started Wells Fargo’s Global CleanTech Group in 2009 to provide expertise, financial services, and resources to help companies focused on decreasing the use of fossil fuels, fertilizers, industrial chemicals, and other activities that cause greenhouse gas emissions or other harmful environmental effects. Wells Fargo financed over $70 billion for green business, renewable energy projects, green buildings, and clean energy customers from 2005 to 2012.
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Agus Sudjianto
Executive Vice President, Head of Corporate Model Risk of Wells Fargo
Agus Sudjianto is an executive vice president and head of Corporate Model Risk for Wells Fargo, where he is responsible for enterprise model risk management. His technical expertise and interests include quantitative risk, particularly credit risk modeling, machine learning and computational statistics.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Michelle Ziolkowski
SVP, Head of Global Payables of Wells Fargo
Michelle Ziolkowski is a Senior Vice President in the Treasury Management Product Management Group for Wells Fargo. As such, she is the Head of Payables, which includes domestic and international wires and ACH, check disbursements, Payment Manager and pre-paid card. She is also managing the Faster Payments initiatives at the bank. Previously, she was the ACH Group Product Manager and also managed the Electronic Commerce Services Emerging Products team focused on AP and AR automation. Michelle joined the Wells Fargo team from American Express, where she was a Senior Client Partner focused on Payables Automation. Michelle was responsible for managing existing client accounts as well as on-going support activities for sales and reseller organizations. Prior to American Express, Michelle was a Manager in the Enterprise Resource Planning Division of Deloitte Consulting for 5 years. She was responsible for financial system implementations and software integration. She also focused on the use of technology to improve service, product delivery, and business reporting capabilities. Michelle holds a degree in Economics from John Carroll University and an MBA in Finance from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. Michelle is a Certified Treasury Professional. She is a member of the NACHA Production Innovation Standing Rules Group as well as the NACHA Communications and Marketing Advisory Committee.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Balaji Gopalakrishnan
SVP, Head of Machine Learning of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Jeff Stapleton
VP Security Architect of Wells Fargo
Jeff Stapleton has over 30 years’ experience in the security, financial and healthcare industries with expertise in payment systems, PCI, cryptography, PKI, key management, biometrics and trusted time stamps. A former QSA and TG-3 assessor, Stapleton has instructed at several universities and is the Author of the Security without Obscurity book series: A Guide to Confidentiality, Integrity, and Authentication and A Guide to PKI Operations. He has participated in developing over four dozen ANSI and ISO security standards over the past 25 years, including being a US expert to ISO TC68 and Chair of the X9F4 Cryptographic Protocols and Application Security working group.
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About Accredited Standards Committee X9, Accredited Standards Committee X9, Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Ben Soccorsy
SVP, Head of Digital Payments of Wells Fargo
Ben Soccorsy is Head of Digital Payments in Wells Fargo Virtual Channels. Ben is responsible for consumer and small business payments products including Digital Wallets, Control Tower, and Zelle, among others. Ben also leads the Secure Data Exchange (SDE) API program. Prior to his current role, Ben led Strategy and Partner Management for the Digital Product Management team. Before joining Digital, Ben managed Consumer Lending products at Wells Fargo, including the relaunch of the unsecured personal loan product. Prior to his 12 years at Wells Fargo, Ben worked at Blue Shield of California in Performance Management, as a Management Consultant at Deloitte Consulting focusing on financial services/health care and in retirement benefits consulting. Ben began his career as a Senate Staffer on Capitol Hill. He received a BA in Economics from Northwestern University and a MBA from Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Nathan Susanj
Vice President, Head of NLP & Speech Capabilities Development of Wells Fargo
Nathan Susanj is the VP, Head of NLP & Speech Capabilities Development at Wells Fargo.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Thomas Malta
SVP, Head of EAM Access Controls of Wells Fargo
Tom Malta is the SVP and Head of EAM Access Controls at Wells Fargo where he oversees the delivery function of tools and services supporting the firm’s Identity and Access Management program. Tom’s extensive career in Financial Services Technology started long ago as a hands-on developer building and supporting front office trading systems for many of the top Wall St. Brokerages and Investment Banks. Shortly after moving to Goldman Sachs in 2000 to build out their Private Wealth platform, he landed in cyber security after 9/11, and has been there ever since focused on building and executing global identity and access management programs. Over the past 20 years he’s led many successful IAM Programs utilizing custom built as well as off the shelf technology supporting internal, external, and 3rd party/cloud identities alike. His recent passions include emerging technologies such as biometrics, AI, and next generation customer authentication solutions such as blockchain. Prior to Wells Fargo, Tom was at Synchrony Financial where he acted as the Global Head of IAM and Chief Identity Architect responsible for developing and executing the firm’s IAM program. Mr. Malta also held similar Managing Director / Executive IT roles at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BNYMellon, Ally Financial, and Brown Brothers Harriman. Tom also participated as chair/co-chair of both Oracle and Computer Associates IAM Customer Advisory Board’s for many years and he is also an active customer advisory board member of the Identity Defined Security Alliance.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Kelli Carlson
SVP Voice of the Customer, Workplace Experience of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Brian Pearce
Senior Vice President, Enterprise Artificial Intelligence of Wells Fargo
Brian Pearce is senior vice president of enterprise artificial intelligence at Wells Fargo. During his time at Wells Fargo, he and his teams have led large, multichannel efforts such as mobile remote deposit, Apple Pay, P2P payments, transfers, bill pay, and the launch of an online brokerage platform, and he previously served as the head of the mobile banking function.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Marria Rhodriquez
VP, Innovation Strategy Consultant of Wells Fargo
Marria Rhodriquez is the Vice President and focuses on digital product strategy for the Wells Fargo Virtual Channel team. In her 15-year tenure at Wells Fargo Bank, Marria has worked in technology, marketing, strategy, and digital product management. She holds a degree in Technical Communication from the University of Washington and an MBA in Marketing from Golden Gate University.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Geanie Asante
Vice President, Value Stream Delivery Manager of Wells Fargo
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About OAACC, University of the Cumberlands, Wells Fargo, Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Michael J. Loughlin
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of Wells Fargo
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer Michael J. Loughlin oversees all risk-taking activities at Wells Fargo, including credit, market, operational, compliance, information security (including cyber risk), and financial crimes risk management. He is also involved in issues such as liquidity, capital, profit planning, and compensation. As the leader of the Corporate Risk group, which includes 5,000 team members, he serves on the Wells Fargo Operating and Management Committees and is based in San Francisco. Mike assumed his role as chief risk officer in 2006. Previously, he was responsible for credit approval, policy, and reporting for Wholesale Banking. A banking professional with 36 years of experience, he joined the company in 1986 after Wells Fargo acquired Crocker Bank. Before serving as head of credit for Wells Fargo Wholesale Banking, he was responsible for the private banking business of Private Client Services, headed systems and operations for the Wholesale Banking unit, and held other positions within Commercial and Corporate Banking including head of U.S. Corporate Banking and Regional Vice President in the Santa Clara Valley Regional Commercial Banking Office. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Mike serves on the board of directors for Students Rising Above, an organization dedicated to helping low-income, first-generation college students realize their potential by guiding and supporting them through college graduation and into the workforce.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Corey Rudzinski
SVP – Chief Operating Officer for the Enterprise Framework Office of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Kimarie Matthews
Senior Vice President, Wells Fargo Virtual Channels Social Care & Capabilities of Wells Fargo
As the senior vice president, social for Wells Fargo’s digital channels group, Kimarie Matthews is responsible for leveraging social technologies to extend Wells Fargo’s ability to support customers, including servicing customers in social channels, building customer community and testing concepts to bring bankers and customers together in social environments. Her programs deliver business benefits that include increased customer satisfaction and brand sentiment and increased website traffic through organic search results.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Marj Anzalone
AVP, Innovation Insights Manager of Wells Fargo
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Sean Greenfield
VP, Consumer Lending UX of Wells Fargo
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Rob Gegenwarth
SVP, Strategy Wealth and Investment Management of Wells Fargo
Rob Gegenwarth is a Senior Vice President of Strategy within the Wealth and Investment Management group at Wells Fargo, a division that manages $1.8 trillion in client assets. At Wells Fargo, Rob has been focused on growth strategy addressing clients ranging from mass market to high net worth, with a focus on digital offerings.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Lisa Frazier
EVP and Head of Innovation of Wells Fargo
Lisa Frazier is the head of Wells Fargo’s Innovation Group, an enterprise-wide organization devoted to accelerating the company’s delivery of next-generation, customer-inspired technologies, products, and services. The Innovation Group leads programs in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), research and development (R&D) in new technologies, the Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator, and Greenhouse by Wells Fargo, a mobile-first banking experience geared toward improving financial health and planning to customers who need it, like students or others who are new to banking, or those who are paid irregularly. Prior to Wells Fargo, Lisa led highly regarded digital programs as the Chief Digital Officer for Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and as a Partner at McKinsey & Company. Most recently, Frazier has focused on advising startup companies on growth, with examples including product development at Jacobi Inc., and scaling enterprise integrations of digital wealth management solutions at SigFig. In addition, Frazier has served as an advisor to the Australia & New Zealand Bank’s Board of Directors and Citibank’s FinTech division. Lisa has received four Canstar “Innovation in Financial Services” awards. She was recognized for her leadership in developing the CBA mobile app, which was named Money Magazine’s “Most Innovative Financial Services Product” in 2014 and ranked sixth globally in the Forrester rankings in its launch year. Lisa was also listed among the “Top 50 Australian Innovators in Silicon Valley” by the Advance Australia Organization in 2011. She has a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Melbourne, and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Lisa also holds a Graduate Diploma in finance and investment from the Australian Securities Institute.
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Daniel Ayala
Global Remittance Services Group Head, Executive Vice President of Wells Fargo
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David Newman
SVP, Head of Enterprise Knowledge Graph Solutions, Data Management and Insights Group, Wells Fargo B of Wells Fargo
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Albert Hwu
Vice President, International Treasury Consultant of Wells Fargo
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Steve Ellis
EVP, Head of the Innovation Group of Wells Fargo
Steve Ellis is an executive vice president and head of the Wells Fargo Innovation Group, an enterprise-wide organization devoted to accelerating the company’s delivery of next-generation, customer-inspired technologies, products, and services. Prior to this assignment, Steve was head of the Wholesale Services Group, which included Treasury Management, Wholesale Banking Technology and Operations, Wholesale Social Strategies, Innovation and Research and Development, Wholesale Marketing, and the Enterprise Payment Strategies Group. A 30-year company veteran, Steve’s previous responsibilities included starting up and running the Wholesale Internet Solutions group, which launched Wells Fargo’s award-winning Commercial Electronic Office® (CEO®) portal in 2000 and CEO Mobile® in 2007. The fast pace of Wells Fargo’s early move into online and mobile financial services was due in large part to his commitment to fostering workplace creativity. Prior to starting up Wholesale Internet Solutions, Steve held senior finance and operations roles in Wells Fargo Commercial Banking, Real Estate Group, and Wholesale Banking. He has a B.S. in economics from Pennsylvania State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Oregon. Steve served as chairman of the board for NACHA, The Electronic Payments Association, from 2005 to 2008 and was vice chairman from 2009 to 2010. He was also a board member of First Graduate, a nonprofit focused on helping young adults become the first members of their families to graduate from college, from 2010 to 2016.
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Adrian Lane
SVP – Cloud Security of Wells Fargo
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Juan Carlos Alonso
AVP of Wells Fargo
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Bonnie Saunders
Vice President,National Client Service Manager of Wells Fargo
Bonnie Saunders serves as vice president of national client service manager at Wells Fargo.
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Pascal Hoffmann
SVP, Wholesale and International Banking of Wells Fargo
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Jason G. Pollack
Vice President; Public Power Relationship Manager of Wells Fargo
Jason Pollack is a Vice President on the Public Power team within Wells Fargo’s Government and Institutional Banking group. As the west coast Relationship Manager, he is responsible for new business development and client management for western region municipal utilities.
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John Shrewsberry
Senior Executive Vice President of Wells Fargo
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Aaron Kraljev
VP of Employer Brand and Candidate Advocacy of Wells Fargo
Aaron Kraljev is the VP of employer brand and candidate advocacy at Wells Fargo.
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Cristal Brawley
Vice President ,Senior Content Strategist, User Experience Design Lead of Wells Fargo
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Sunil Pandya
Senior Vice President of Wells Fargo
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Sunil Pandya
Senior Vice President of Wells Fargo
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James King
SVP / CISO(Chief Information Security Officer) of Finicity
James King is SVP & CSO at Finicity.
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About Finicity: Finicity provides open banking services, real-time financial data access and insights.
Peter Berg
VP of Business Development and Strategy of Very Good Security
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About Very Good Security: Very Good Security is a fintech & data security enablement platform helping to maximize the value of data without compliance & breach risk.
Tomer Shoval
SVP Sales, Strategic Accounts, & Bus. Dev of Flywire
A veteran e-commerce leader, Tomer is a frequent speaker on the intersection of healthcare, technology, and consumers. Tomer founded Simplee as a way to help others better understand and manage their healthcare bills. Previously, he was the managing director of Shopping.com North America (an eBay company). Tomer holds a BA from Academic College of Tel-Aviv.
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About Flywire, Simplificare Hosting and Solutions: Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company.
Sharon Butler
EVP Global Education of Flywire
Sharon Butler has over 17 years experience in sales and service. Prior to joining peerTransfer Sharon was the North East Regional Sales Director for Tuition Management Systems, the leading provider of outsourced tuition planning, billing, and payment processing services in Higher Education. Sharon was also the District Sales Director for SkyTel a division of Verizon Business, a leading wireless technology provider. Sharon is a graduate of Bridgewater State University, with a BA in Communication and a Minor in Business Management.
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About Flywire: Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company.
Jareau Wade
VP Growth of Finix Payments
Jareau joined Matin and Mahmoud in May 2011. Before that, he was the 1st employee and head of data acquisition at Milo.com where he Managed 60% of Milo’s employees and designed many of their data acquisition systems. Prior to Milo, Jareau was a founding faculty member of a a technology-entrepreneurship training institute in Ghana. Jareau holds a BSE in Electrical Engineering from University of Pennsylvania where he built emergency personnel tracking systems using GPS.
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About Finix Payments: Finix Payments is a fintech company that develops a payment processing platform for businesses.
Martin Hood
Vice President, Channel Partnerships of CashStar
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About CashStar: CashStar is a provider of prepaid commerce solutions for the world’s top retailers and restaurants.
Terry Sutton
Vice President, Client Success of CashStar
Terry Sutton is a seasoned senior executive with over 25 years of experience in Operations, Technology and Customer Experience. She most recently was at L.L.Bean where she oversaw the E-commerce and Marketing departments as Senior Vice-President of the Direct Channel. Prior to that she was the VP of Customer Satisfaction for L.L.Bean, responsible for four call centers and over 1,000 employees. She is unique in her ability to bring together people, process and technology to solve complex business problems and is known for her ability to translate strategy into action. Her passion for the customer experience and business process design and optimization positions her well to scale DAVO Technologies for the future. Terry has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T. and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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About CashStar: CashStar is a provider of prepaid commerce solutions for the world’s top retailers and restaurants.
Dan Farrell
Vice President, Worldwide Sales of CashStar
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Dan Farrell
Vice President, Worldwide Sales of CashStar
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Katherine Edenbach
Vice President, Finance of CashStar
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Tevye Krynski
VP of Engineering of Migo
Tevye Krynski is the VP of Engineering at Migo.
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About Migo: Migo is a cloud-based platform that allows customers to use loans, make purchases, and withdraw cash without the need for plastic cards.
Christian V. Bergmann
Vice President of Partnerships of Migo
Christian V. Bergmann is the VP of partnerships at Migo.
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About Migo: Migo is a cloud-based platform that allows customers to use loans, make purchases, and withdraw cash without the need for plastic cards.
Julian King
Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development of Xoom
Julian King joined Xoom in 2005 and is the company’s Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development. He runs marketing, advertising, public relations, business development and strategy. Julian came to Xoom from EarthLink, where he was Vice President of Marketing and Products for the PeoplePC Online business, and was instrumental in growing it to more than a million paying subscribers. From 1992 to 2000, Julian worked at Procter & Gamble, most recently as Marketing Director. Julian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Xoom: Xoom is a digital money transfer company that allows users to securely transfer money online.
Gina Taylor
SVP & GM – Kabbage Strategy & Integration, Global Commercial Services of American Express
Gina Taylor Cotter has amassed tremendous experience in her more than 19 years with American Express, specializing in areas such as customer acquisition, product management, risk management and strategy. She is a seasoned lending leader, having led teams in a variety of functional areas overseeing various aspects of the lending business for American Express. She is known as a leader who challenges the status quo, successfully driving large-scale strategy and business transformation initiatives. Gina is currently the head of Global Commercial Financing, the division focused on serving small and mid-size customer’s working capital and financing needs with a variety of short-term lending solutions. Global Commercial Financing is a high growth opportunity for the American Express Commercial Payments business. Merchant Financing and Working Capital Terms are two of the fast growing products within the suite. In her previous role, Gina was head of the corporate payments product suite that served mid-size and large clients globally, including the management of the T&E and B2B product suite. Prior to her time in product management, Gina led a strategy and business operations function for the OPEN line of business. Gina also led the Project Resource Team, a unique approach to flexible project based staffing, enabling OPEN to opportunistically retain high-performing employees while flexibly staffing strategic projects. She is an advocate of advancing a culture of flexibility through workplace innovations. Gina lives and breathes workplace flexibility as she works virtually from her Los Angeles home office. She has also served as Vice President and General Manager, Customer Acquisition and was responsible for leading the customer acquisition and cross-sell strategy for the OPEN business for both charge and lending products. Previously, Gina served as Vice President, Risk Management working in various underwriting and customer management functions. Gina attended Wilkes University graduating summa cum laude and after earned an MBA from Drexel University, where she taught microeconomics as a teaching assistant. She is married with three children.
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Gunther Bright
Executive Vice President and General Manager, U.S. Large Market and Global Client Group of American Express
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