10 former PayPal payments leaders
These ten people led payments teams or payments work at PayPal and have since left the company. A reader can learn how payments work was run at a company like PayPal from people who did it there.
Professionals to explore
Abhishek Sandhir
LinkedInExperience: Head of Product, Open Banking | EMEA Payments (Group PM) · PayPal
Abhishek Sandhir is a former Head of Product, Open Banking | EMEA Payments (Group PM) at PayPal, holding the role from 2018 to 2021, and held Head, LATAM, Alternate Payments (Lead PM) and global payments product manager titles there from 2014 to 2018. Abhishek Sandhir has been Head of Payments, Starlink at SpaceX since 2024.
Eduardo Righi
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Payments Markets & Partnerships · PayPal
Eduardo Righi is a former Vice President Payments Markets & Partnerships at PayPal, holding the role from 2022 to 2024, and was Sr. Director Enterprise Payment Partnerships there from 2020 to 2022. Eduardo Righi has been GM Financial Services at eBay since 2026 and founded NovaVista Capital in 2025.
Irina Nichol
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, GM and Head of Product, Braintree · PayPal
Irina Nichol is a former Senior Director, GM and Head of Product, Braintree at PayPal, holding the role from 2022 to 2025, and held product leadership titles in JPMorgan Payments and merchant services at JPMorganChase from 2016 to 2022. Irina Nichol has been Managing Director, Head of SMB Product at JPMorganChase since 2025.
James Franklin Raja
LinkedInExperience: Head of Global Card payment products, PayPal · PayPal
James Franklin Raja is a former Head of Global Card payment products, PayPal at PayPal, holding the role in 2022, and was Director, Head of APAC Card Acquiring, Currency and FX products there from 2012 to 2018. James Franklin Raja has been Head, Global Payments, Liquidity and Wholesale Digital products, India and Philippines at Wells Fargo since 2024.
Jon Krauss
LinkedInExperience: Head of Enterprise Payments Operations and Strategy · PayPal
Jon Krauss is a former Head of Enterprise Payments Operations and Strategy at PayPal, holding the role from 2021 to 2024, and also held Head of Braintree and Risk-as-a-Service and Head of Product Optimization and Observability titles there in 2024 and 2025. Jon Krauss has been Head of Global Payments Performance at Stripe since 2025.
Juan Molero
LinkedInExperience: Director of Enterprise Payment Partnerships · PayPal
Juan Molero is a former Director of Enterprise Payment Partnerships at PayPal, holding the role from 2021 to 2026, and was Head of LATAM Payment Partnerships and Operations at Amazon from 2020 to 2021. Juan Molero has been Head of Payment Business (GM) at eBay since 2026 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Michael Ting
LinkedInExperience: Head of Payouts · PayPal
Michael Ting is a former Head of Payouts at PayPal, holding the role from 2020 to 2026, and was Head of Global Financial Partnerships (Hyperwallet) there from 2019 to 2020. Michael Ting has been SVP Payments & Charities at Ren since 2026 and was SVP, Digital Markets at Hyperwallet from 2015 to 2018.
Peter Burridge
LinkedInExperience: Head of Operations Payouts · PayPal
Peter Burridge is a former Head of Operations Payouts at PayPal, holding the role from 2019 to 2020, and the profile highlight for that role describes Hyperwallet and PayPal MassPay combining into PayPal Payouts. Peter Burridge has been Group Chief Executive Officer at Nomupay since 2021 and is based in Dubai.
Richard Oh
LinkedInExperience: Head of Payments, PayPal Asia Pacific · PayPal
Richard Oh is a former Head of Payments, PayPal Asia Pacific at PayPal, holding the role from 2014 to 2018, and was Head of Payment Network Partnerships Asia at Rapyd from 2018 to 2021. Richard Oh was Global Head of Payment Partnerships at Crypto.com from 2021 to 2022 and is based in Singapore.
Rob McDonald
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product Management - Payments Strategy and Product Solutions Architect · PayPal
Rob McDonald is a former Director of Product Management - Payments Strategy and Product Solutions Architect at PayPal, holding the role from 2021 to 2023, and the profile highlight for that role describes leading product strategy for the card acceptance portfolio across Core, Braintree and Venmo. Rob McDonald has been Strategic Acquiring Product & Operations Manager at Block since 2024.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's area to your question, since regional payments, card products, payouts, Braintree, payment operations and bank and processor partnership roles each saw a different part of payments. Check the years of their PayPal role and where they work now, because payment products and partner terms change quickly.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How did you choose which payment methods and partners to add in a new region?
- 02Which measures told you whether a payments product or partnership was working?
- 03What would you build first for payments at a younger company with a small team?
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