Payments
10 heads of data in Payments
These ten executives hold or have held chief data officer or head of data titles, some combined with AI, insights or operating responsibilities, at payment companies. A reader can learn how payments businesses organize data teams, govern data and apply data and AI across their products.
Professionals to explore
01—10Andy Periam
LinkedInExperience: Head of Data & Insights · Visa
Head of Data & Insights at Visa since February 2026, a role the profile tags at director level; the profile headline lists Visa Direct, real-time payments, and data strategy and AI. Former Product Analytics Manager at Visa (2023–2026) and Business Intelligence Analyst at Visa Payments Limited (2019–2023).
Barkha Saxena
LinkedInExperience: Global Chief Data Officer · Trustly
Global Chief Data Officer at Trustly since January 2026; the profile describes Trustly as offering a suite of pay by bank products with global reach, smarter payments for businesses and reduced fraud. The profile also lists Co-founder and Board Member at InvestInData and Member Of The Board Of Advisors at Pecan AI, both since 2021.
Dr. David Duan
LinkedInExperience: Head of Data, Payments (VP-level) Goto Financial (FinTech, GoPay, Consumer & Merchant Payment) · GoTo Group
Former Head of Data, Payments (VP-level) Goto Financial (FinTech, GoPay, Consumer & Merchant Payment) at GoTo Group (2025–2026) and Head of Data (VP-level) GoTo Financial (GoPay, Consumer Payment) there (2023–2025); since July 2026 the profile lists VP, Data Payments & Growth. The profile describes GoTo as a Southeast Asian technology ecosystem spanning mobility, digital payments and financial services.
Emily Sands
LinkedInExperience: Head of Data & AI · Stripe
Head of Data & AI at Stripe since July 2025; the profile describes Stripe as a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Former Head of Information (2022–2025) and Head of Data Science (2021–2022) at Stripe, and VP of Data Science at Coursera (2014–2021).
Greg Ulrich
LinkedInExperience: Chief AI and Data Officer · Mastercard
Chief AI and Data Officer at Mastercard since May 2024, a role the profile says leads all of Mastercard's efforts in AI and data and sits on the firm's Management Committee. Former Executive Vice President, Strategy, Corporate Development and M&A (2020–2024) and Executive Vice President, Strategy & Innovation, Mastercard Data & Services (2019–2020) at Mastercard.
Hemang Dattani
LinkedInExperience: Chief Operating Officer and Head of Data · PayU
Former Chief Operating Officer and Head of Data at PayU (2023–2025), a C-level general management role according to the profile, and Chief Business Officer - Payments at PayU since March 2025. Other PayU roles include Global Risk Head (2019–2023) and Business Head - Growth Initiatives (2020–2023).
Himanshu Shah
LinkedInExperience: VP, Head of Data & AI · Worldpay
Former VP, Head of Data & AI at Worldpay (2024–2026), and Head of Data Delivery & Engineering at Global Payments Inc. since April 2026; the profile headline lists data strategy, data governance and payments. Former Senior Director, Data Development (2022–2024) and Director, Data Development (2018–2022) at FIS.
Jag Thind
LinkedInExperience: Head of Data · Super Payments
Head of Data at Super Payments since June 2023, a hands-on role the profile says covers data engineering, analytics and data governance. Former Principal Data Engineer at Super Payments (2022–2023) and at Beauty Pie (2021–2022), and Lead Data Engineer at Charlotte Tilbury Beauty (2018–2019 and 2020–2021).
Koushik Kadidal
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer and Head of Insights Business · PayU
Chief Data Officer and Head of Insights Business at PayU since January 2024; the profile describes PayU as providing payment solutions and online payment processing for merchants. Former Head of Growth at LazyPay (2021–2024), and Director, Head of Offshore Analytics, North America Credit Cards at Citi (2014–2020).
Nadav Ephrath
LinkedInExperience: Chief Data Officer · Pay.com
Chief Data Officer at Pay.com since August 2026, alongside Head of Data there since June 2025; the profile places the role in Limassol, Cyprus, and describes Pay.com as a financial services company. Former Data Architect (2022–2025), Data Team Lead (2019–2021) and BI Developer (2017–2021) at Riskified.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's company stage and model to yours, since building a first data team at a payments startup differs from running data at a global network or processor. Also weigh whether you need help with data strategy and governance or with data engineering and platforms, and favor people whose notes describe that kind of work.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you organize a data team that supports merchant products, risk and finance at a payments company?
- 02What data governance and privacy controls did you need for transaction data before using it in analytics or AI?
- 03Which data products or platform investments paid off first, and how did you measure the result?
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