10 CIOs in Payments
The payments CIOs here work at companies as different as NETS, Worldline, PAYONE, Nayax, CPI Card Group, Corpay Cross-Border and the Pan-African Payment & Settlement System, and nine hold the chief information officer title today. Five took the CIO seat at a company where they already held another title, which helps a payments business planning to modernize processing platforms while keeping uptime, security and compliance intact.
Professionals to explore
Ernesto Boada
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · CPI Card Group
Card issuing technology questions suit Ernesto Boada, Chief Information Officer at CPI Card Group since 2024; the company describes payment technology including EMV cards, instant issuance, push provisioning and personalization. Ernesto was Co-Founder and CTO at Sunny Day Fund (2023-2024) and has sat on the Coink board since 2021.
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Françoise Verger
LinkedInExperience: Group Chief Information Officer · Worldline
Group Chief Information Officer at Worldline since 2025, Françoise Verger describes reporting to the Group CTO. At Worldline, Françoise was also Head of Corporate IT Application Transformation (2019-2025) and Global Performance Manager (2016-2019), and was India HR Chief Operations Officer (2015-2016) and Head of Risk & Project Excellence (2012-2015) at Atos, useful for corporate IT transformation at a payments group.
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Guido Sacchi
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer and SEVP · Global Payments Inc.
A twelve-year CIO run at a payments processor is what Guido Sacchi brings: Chief Information Officer and SEVP at Global Payments Inc. from 2011 to 2023. Guido was also CIO and SVP, Corporate Strategies at Atlanticus (2002-2008), CEO at Moneta Corp. (2008-2010) and Managing Director at Slalom (2010-2011).
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Jason Wilkinson
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · Gravity Payments
At Gravity Payments, Jason Wilkinson has been Chief Information Officer since 2025, after Vice President of Technology & Security (2024-2025), a role described as leading all security and compliance efforts and overseeing IT, DevOps and cloud architecture. Jason was Vice President of Technology - Engineering, IT, & Security (2022-2024) and Vice President Of Technology - Shared Services (2021-2022) at Spreetail and was Chief Technology Officer at Firespring (2014-2021).
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Markus Koerner
LinkedInExperience: CIO · PAYONE
Markus Koerner has been CIO at PAYONE since 2025 and was President Kyndryl Deutschland (2021-2025), Vice President at IBM (2010-2019) and Director at IBM (2007-2010). PAYONE describes online, instore and omnichannel payment services, so Markus fits questions on bringing experience from Kyndryl and IBM into a payments provider.
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Moshe Shmaryahu
LinkedInExperience: CIO - Chief Information Officer · Nayax
Moshe Shmaryahu has been CIO - Chief Information Officer at Nayax since 2023, a company describing cashless payment acceptance, a management suite and customer loyalty. Moshe was COO - Senior Director of Operations and Infrastructure at Union Bank of Israel (2012-2023) and was Head of Development Branch (2006-2009) and Head of Control & Operation Branch (2009-2011) in the J6 & Cyber Defense Directorate, IDF.
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Nish Patel
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer, Corpay Cross-Border (formerly Cambridge Global Payments) · Corpay
Scaling proprietary systems for cross-border payments is the work Nish Patel describes as Chief Information Officer, Corpay Cross-Border (formerly Cambridge Global Payments) since 2022. Nish held VP, Development and Infrastructure (2016-2022), Head of Software Architecture & Development (2014-2015) and development roles at the same company from 2008, so questions on growing into the CIO seat at one company fit.
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Ositadimma Ugwu
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · Pan-African Payment & Settlement System - PAPSS
Processing and clearing work across IT and operations is what Ositadimma Ugwu describes overseeing as Chief Information Officer at Pan-African Payment & Settlement System - PAPSS since 2025, after Head Technology & Operations there (2021-2025). Ositadimma held Head, Information Technology Operations at First Bank of Nigeria Ltd. (2019-2021) and Head, IT Business Enablement at Union Bank of Nigeria (2018-2019).
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Robin Laskowski
LinkedInExperience: SVP & CIO · Woodforest Acceptance Solutions
Robin Laskowski holds SVP & CIO at Woodforest Acceptance Solutions (since 2024) and was SVP & Chief Information Officer at Merchants' Choice Payment Solutions (2016-2017). Robin also held VP Director IT Product-Merchant Acquiring at Woodforest National Bank (2020-2023) and an SVP application delivery role in payment processing at Paysafe (2017-2020), a fit for merchant acquiring technology questions.
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Suresh Kumar Jaganathan
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · NETS
National payment infrastructure questions fit Suresh Kumar Jaganathan, Chief Information Officer at NETS since 2024, after Head of Grow & Transform (2022-2024) and Vice President - Payment Gateway & Transactions Processing (2014-2022) there. Suresh describes 20+ years building and modernizing national-scale payment ecosystems across cards, mobile wallets, QR and cross-border networks.
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Choose the right perspective
For national or regional payment infrastructure, Suresh Kumar Jaganathan at NETS and Ositadimma Ugwu at PAPSS are the closest fits; Françoise Verger, Markus Koerner and Guido Sacchi, the former Global Payments CIO, cover payment processors and service providers. Jason Wilkinson suits security and compliance questions, Nish Patel cross-border systems, Ernesto Boada card issuing technology, Moshe Shmaryahu cashless payment acceptance and Robin Laskowski merchant acquiring IT.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you replace a payment gateway or switch that carries national transaction volumes without an outage during cutover?
- 02Which PCI DSS and security controls should sit with the CIO at a merchant payments company, and which with a separate security team?
- 03For cross-border payments, how do you decide which proprietary systems to keep scaling and which to replace with vendor platforms?
About this directory
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