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10 Adyen partnerships leaders
These ten current Adyen partnerships leaders hold vice president, head-of and director roles in global and regional partnerships, alliance partnerships, payment and card network partnerships, scaled partner programs, commercial partnerships and business development at the company. A reader can learn how partnerships leaders work at Adyen from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
01—10Cheliyan Pancras
LinkedInExperience: Director, Commercial Partnerships · Adyen
Director, Commercial Partnerships at Adyen since 2020; the profile headline cites unified commerce, in-person payments and fintech ecosystems. Earlier roles shown are Partner Sales Manager, SEA & India (2019–2020) and Strategic Account Manager, APAC (2018–2019) at Adobe, Senior Account Manager at Brightcove (2017–2018) and Global Readiness Consultant at Oracle (2014–2017).
Jose Sepulveda
LinkedInExperience: Global Head - Programs and Scaled Partnerships · Adyen
Global Head - Programs and Scaled Partnerships at Adyen since 2024. Earlier roles shown are Global Go-to-Market Programs, Director at Meta (2021–2024), Sr. Director, Cloud GTM Strategy and Operations at Salesforce (2020–2021) and Global Head of Partner Strategy and Programs - Google Cloud at Google (2013–2021).
Kyle Thiemke
LinkedInExperience: Head of Payment Partnerships, North America · Adyen
Head of Payment Partnerships, North America at Adyen since 2025, a director-level role per the profile. Earlier roles shown are at Lightspeed Commerce: Vice President, Partnerships (2024–2025), Vice President, Business Development and Strategy (2022–2024) and Senior Director, Business Strategy (2021–2022).
Mo Damman
LinkedInExperience: Head of Card Network & Product Partnerships · Adyen
Head of Card Network & Product Partnerships at Adyen since 2025, leading global card acquiring, issuing and product partnerships, per the profile. Earlier Adyen roles shown are Head of Card Network Partnerships (2024–2025), Card Network Partnerships Lead (2022–2024), Card Network Partnership Manager (2019–2022) and Card Acquiring Analyst (2018).
Nadia Qureshi
LinkedInExperience: VP, Global Head of Partnerships · Adyen
VP, Global Head of Partnerships at Adyen since 2025, after VP Partnerships, NA there (2024–2025). Earlier roles shown are at PayPal: Senior Director, Global Partnerships (2022–2024), Director, Global Partner Growth (2018–2022) and Senior Manager - Partner Business Development (2014–2018).
Rob Cohan
LinkedInExperience: Head of Alliance Partnerships, North America · Adyen
Head of Alliance Partnerships, North America at Adyen since 2026, leading the North America alliances team focused on global system integrators, consultancies and private equity firms, per the profile. Earlier Adyen roles shown are Senior Manager, Strategic Alliances (2023–2026) and Senior Account Manager (2020–2023), after program roles at Altimetrik (2017–2020).
Shep Smith
LinkedInExperience: VP Global Partnerships; Interim VP Product Management, Payments · Adyen
VP Global Partnerships and Interim VP Product Management, Payments at Adyen since 2025, after VP Global Payment & Product Partnerships & Partner Engineering there (2024–2025). Earlier roles shown are COO (2021–2024) and Vice President Of Business Development (2021) at Synctera, and Director, Business Development at Google (2018–2021).
Tomas Damen
LinkedInExperience: VP Global Business Development · Adyen
VP Global Business Development at Adyen since 2025. Former Head of Technology Partnerships EMEA at Adyen (2022–2025); earlier Adyen roles shown are Senior Manager Strategic Partnerships (2019–2022) and Global Business Development Manager POS (2018–2019), and before that Global Strategic Partner and Channel Manager at Mollie (2016–2018).
Virginie Boulé
LinkedInExperience: Head of Alliances Partnership, EMEA · Adyen
Head of Alliances Partnership, EMEA at Adyen since 2023, leading a team of senior partnership managers across Europe, per the profile. Earlier Adyen roles shown are Team Lead, French Partnership Team (2022–2023) and Strategic Partnership Manager (2020–2022), and Marketing Manager - Retail Segment at Ingenico (2019).
Xaveer Fluitman
LinkedInExperience: VP Partnerships, EMEA · Adyen
VP Partnerships, EMEA at Adyen since 2025. Earlier roles shown are at Booking.com: Director B2B Marketing Partnerships EMEA & OCEANIA (2020–2024), Director Business Travel EMEA (2017–2020), Senior Commercial Manager Business Travel (2015–2017) and Regional Manager USA East (2013–2015).
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- 01How does a global payments platform decide which system integrators, consultancies or technology platforms to partner with?
- 02What does a technology partner need to bring to a co-sell or integration partnership with Adyen?
- 03How are alliance, commercial and payment partnership teams organized across regions at a payments company?
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