Payments
10 CIOs in Payments
These ten technology executives hold or have held chief information officer roles at payments companies. A reader can learn how payments CIOs run IT for processing, settlement, card and merchant businesses, and how they approach modernization, security and compliance.
Professionals to explore
01—10Ernesto Boada
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · CPI Card Group
Chief Information Officer at CPI Card Group since October 2024; the profile describes CPI Card Group as providing payment technology solutions including EMV cards, instant issuance, push provisioning and personalization. The profile also lists Co-Founder and CTO of Sunny Day Fund (2023–2024) and a board seat at Coink since 2021.
Françoise Verger
LinkedInExperience: Group Chief Information Officer · Worldline
Group Chief Information Officer at Worldline since January 2025, reporting to the Group CTO according to the profile, which describes Worldline as Europe's leading payment service provider. At Worldline Françoise Verger was also Head of Corporate IT Application Transformation (2019–2025) and Global Performance Manager (2016–2019).
Guido Sacchi
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer and SEVP · Global Payments Inc.
Former Chief Information Officer and SEVP at Global Payments Inc. (2011–2023), a company the profile describes as providing solutions for industries including restaurants, education and property management. The profile also lists CEO of Moneta Corp. (2008–2010) and CIO and SVP, Corporate Strategies at Atlanticus (2002–2008).
Jason Wilkinson
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · Gravity Payments
Chief Information Officer at Gravity Payments since October 2025, after serving there as Vice President of Technology & Security (2024–2025), a role in which the profile says he led all security and compliance efforts and oversaw IT, DevOps and cloud architecture. Other roles include Vice President of Technology - Engineering, IT, & Security at Spreetail (2022–2024) and Chief Technology Officer at Firespring (2014–2021).
Markus Koerner
LinkedInExperience: CIO · PAYONE
CIO at PAYONE since December 2025; the profile describes PAYONE as offering payment solutions for businesses across online, in-store and omnichannel services. The profile also lists President Kyndryl Deutschland at Kyndryl (2021–2025) and Vice President (2010–2019) and Director (2007–2010) roles at IBM.
Moshe Shmaryahu
LinkedInExperience: CIO - Chief Information Officer · Nayax
CIO - Chief Information Officer at Nayax since November 2023; the profile describes Nayax as offering payment and management solutions including cashless payment acceptance. The profile also lists COO - Senior Director of Operations and Infrastructure at Union Bank of Israel (2012–2023) and roles at the J6 & Cyber Defense Directorate, IDF, including LOTEM, CIO - Head of Development Branch (2006–2009).
Nish Patel
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer, Corpay Cross-Border (formerly Cambridge Global Payments) · Corpay
Chief Information Officer, Corpay Cross-Border (formerly Cambridge Global Payments) at Corpay since March 2022, steering the business's technology strategy and, per the profile, scaling its proprietary systems for cross-border payments. Roles at Cambridge Global Payments include VP, Development and Infrastructure (2016–2022), Head of Software Architecture & Development (2014–2015) and Manager, Client Solutions Development and Integration (2011–2014).
Ositadimma Ugwu
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · Pan-African Payment & Settlement System - PAPSS
Chief Information Officer at Pan-African Payment & Settlement System - PAPSS since November 2025, providing strategic and technical direction for PAPSS information technology and operations. The profile also lists Head Technology & Operations at PAPSS (2021–2025) and Head, Information Technology Operations at First Bank of Nigeria Ltd. (2019–2021).
Robin Laskowski
LinkedInExperience: SVP & CIO · Woodforest Acceptance Solutions
SVP & CIO at Woodforest Acceptance Solutions since January 2024, after serving as VP Director IT Product-Merchant Acquiring at Woodforest National Bank (2020–2023). The profile also lists SVP & Chief Information Officer at Merchants' Choice Payment Solutions (2016–2017) and describes 25 years of experience in fintech payments technology and product.
Suresh Kumar Jaganathan
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · NETS
Chief Information Officer at NETS since March 2024, after serving there as Head of Grow & Transform (2022–2024) and Vice President - Payment Gateway & Transactions Processing (2014–2022). The profile describes more than 20 years building and modernizing national-scale payment ecosystems across cards, mobile wallets, QR and cross-border payment networks.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you modernize core payment processing systems without risking downtime for merchants or cardholders?
- 02How do you divide responsibility for security and compliance, such as PCI DSS, between IT, security and product teams?
- 03Which parts of the payments technology stack do you build in-house, and which do you buy or outsource?
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