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10 Affirm partnerships leaders
These ten current and former Affirm partnerships leaders have held vice president, head-of, senior director and director roles in strategic partnerships, strategic alliances, distribution partnerships, financial partnerships and partner management at the company. A reader can learn how partnerships leaders work at Affirm from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
01—10Allison Keane
LinkedInExperience: Director - Strategic Partnerships, Partner Management · Affirm
Former Director - Strategic Partnerships, Partner Management at Affirm (2023–2025), after Strategic Partnerships - Payments & POS there (2021–2023). Vice President Strategic Partnerships at 8am since 2025; earlier roles shown include a director role in payment facilitator partner management at American Express (2019–2021).
Douglas Kessel
LinkedInExperience: Director, Strategic Alliances · Affirm
Director, Strategic Alliances at Affirm since 2022, leading the team responsible for Affirm's partnership with Amazon across North America retail, Amazon Business and Amazon Pay, per the profile. Earlier Affirm roles shown are Senior Manager, Product Partnerships (2021–2022) and Manager, Capital Markets & Bank Partnerships (2019–2021).
George Moxom
LinkedInExperience: Director, Strategic Alliance and Partnerships · Affirm
Director, Strategic Alliance and Partnerships at Affirm since 2023, leading a revenue team responsible for some of Affirm's largest strategic partnerships, per the profile. Earlier Affirm roles shown are Senior Manager, Strategic Alliance & Partnerships (2021–2023) and client success roles (2016–2021).
Harrison Siegel
LinkedInExperience: Director, Distribution Partnerships · Affirm
Director, Distribution Partnerships at Affirm since 2025, leading distribution partnerships that expand Affirm's global reach, per the profile. Earlier roles shown are Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships at Affirm (2022–2025) and Director, Impact Investing at Social Finance (2022).
Jeffrey Salvitti
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships · Affirm
Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships at Affirm since 2026, after Director of Strategic Partnerships there from 2021. Earlier roles shown are Senior Lead, Strategic Product Partnerships & Partner Ecosystem at Guru (2019–2021) and product partnerships and monetization partnerships roles at Google (2013–2019).
Jennifer Lim
LinkedInExperience: Director, Strategic Partnerships · Affirm
Director, Strategic Partnerships at Affirm since 2023. Earlier roles shown are Sr Product Marketing Manager at Amazon (2022–2023) and director roles in commercial card, loyalty programs and product strategy at American Express (2019–2022). The profile cites signing partner agreements with key B2B merchants.
Kevin Barbary
LinkedInExperience: Sr Director, Financial Partnerships & Procurement · Affirm
Sr Director, Financial Partnerships & Procurement at Affirm since 2025, a finance department role per the profile. Earlier Affirm roles shown are Director, Financial Partnerships (2024–2025), Sr Manager (2022–2023), Manager (2021–2022) and Financial Partnerships Lead (2020–2021).
Paul Zhou
LinkedInExperience: Director, Strategic Partnership · Affirm
Director, Strategic Partnership at Affirm since 2025, leading international expansion of Affirm's strategic partnerships with Shopify, per the profile. Earlier Affirm roles shown are Partnerships (2021–2025), where the profile cites growing the Shop Pay Installments embedded lending product, and Enterprise Customer Success (2018–2021).
Scott Williams
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Strategic Partnerships · Affirm
Former Vice President Strategic Partnerships at Affirm (2022–2023), and Vice President Client Success & Partner Marketing there since 2024. Earlier Affirm roles shown are Vice President of Client Success (2023–2024), Vice President, Corporate Development & Financial Partnerships (2020–2022) and Snr. Director in the same area (2019–2020).
Steve McPhee
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Strategic Partnerships · Affirm
Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at Affirm since 2026, after Head of Strategic Partnerships there (2024–2026). Earlier Affirm roles shown are Head of Emerging Vertical Partnerships (2024–2025), Key Account Relationship Owner (2022–2024) and Head of International Partnerships (2022).
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Match the person's partnership area to your question, since the titles on this page cover different partner types such as large merchants, commerce platforms, distribution partners and bank or capital partners. Check each person's dates to see whether they still hold the role.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does a pay-over-time lender decide which merchants, platforms or payment providers to pursue as strategic partners?
- 02What does a commerce platform or large retailer need to bring to an embedded financing partnership with Affirm?
- 03How are strategic alliance, distribution and financial partnership teams organized at a consumer lending company?
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