10 PayPal corporate development leaders
YK Kim, Senior Director Corporate Development at PayPal, opens this list of PayPal corporate development leaders, who hold senior director and director titles in corporate development, integration and the finance, legal, risk and compensation sides of M&A. A reader can learn how corporate development leaders work at PayPal from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Andrew Oyoung
LinkedInExperience: Director M&A Finance · PayPal
Andrew Oyoung has been Director M&A Finance at PayPal since July 2018, a role the profile lists under Finance & Accounting. Andrew Oyoung was Senior Technical Accounting Manager at LendingClub (2017–2018) and Assurance Senior Manager at PwC (2009–2017), according to the profile.
Carlos E. Rivas
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, M&A and Ventures Legal · PayPal
Carlos E. Rivas has been Senior Director, M&A and Ventures Legal at PayPal since April 2025. Carlos E. Rivas was Director & Associate General Counsel, M&A at Instacart (2022–2025), and at Intel was Director, Senior Managing Counsel, M&A and Investments (2019–2022) and Associate Director, M&A and Investments (2019).
Edward Hallett
LinkedInExperience: Former Senior Director Corporate Development · PayPal
Former Senior Director Corporate Development at PayPal (2024–2026). Edward Hallett was also Senior Director, Product Lead SMB Commerce and Payments at PayPal (2021–2024) and General Manager, Zettle UK at Zettle by PayPal (2018–2021), and has been Founder of Zeal AI, Inc. since March 2026.
Jamie Boggs
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Head of M&A Finance · PayPal
Jamie Boggs has been Senior Director, Head of M&A Finance at PayPal since January 2021, a role the profile lists in San Francisco, California, under Finance & Accounting. Jamie Boggs was a Managing Director at KPMG US (2006–2021), the only other work row the source shows.
Jinzy Zhu
LinkedInExperience: Director, Corporate Development - Integration · PayPal
Jinzy Zhu has been Director, Corporate Development - Integration at PayPal since April 2026, and was Head of M&A Legal Integration at PayPal (2019–2026). At PayPal, Jinzy Zhu also held Senior Product Counsel - Merchant Products & Payments (2019–2020) and Lead Solution Architect - Business Development with Banking Sector (2015–2019).
Joan Sutherland
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Global Compensation Strategy and M&A · PayPal
Joan Sutherland has been Senior Director, Global Compensation Strategy and M&A at PayPal since March 2021. Joan Sutherland was Head of Global Compensation at the Gates Foundation (2017–2021), Director, Job Architecture, Benchmarking & Base Pay at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (2015–2017) and Global MADO (M&A) Total Rewards Manager at HP (2009–2013).
Lauren Staudinger
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, M&A Risk & Compliance Lead · PayPal
Lauren Staudinger has been Senior Director, M&A Risk & Compliance Lead at PayPal since April 2023, and was Director, M&A Risk & Compliance Lead there (2020–2023). Lauren Staudinger was Director of Compliance at EarnIn (2019–2020) and Enterprise Risk & Compliance Consulting Partner (VP) for Banking & Capital Markets at Genpact (2018–2019).
Peter Wallace
LinkedInExperience: Former Senior Director Corporate Development & Business Development · PayPal
Former Senior Director Corporate Development & Business Development at PayPal (2015–2018). Peter Wallace has been VP Mergers & Acquisitions, Investments and Strategic Partnerships at Mastercard since January 2019, and was an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan (2005–2015) and VP Corporate Development & Acquisitions at MBNA (2003–2005).
Phillip Valka
LinkedInExperience: Former Senior Director, Global Corporate Development & Ventures · PayPal
Former Senior Director, Global Corporate Development & Ventures at PayPal (2021–2022), and Director - Global Corporate Development & Ventures there (2018–2021). Phillip Valka has been Managing Director - Head of Corporate Development at Euroclear since January 2025, and was a Managing Director at Apis Partners (2022–2024).
YK Kim
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director Corporate Development · PayPal
YK Kim has been Senior Director Corporate Development at PayPal since July 2025, and was Director Corporate Development (2024–2025), Senior Manager (2022–2024) and Manager (2021–2022) at PayPal. YK Kim worked in Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs (2019–2021), according to the profile.
Choose the right perspective
Pick someone from a corporate development role for questions about finding and evaluating a deal, and someone whose title names M&A finance, legal, risk or compensation for questions about that part of the work. Ask about the years the person held the role, since priorities in a payments company's deal work can change from one period to the next.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does a corporate development group at a payments company decide which acquisitions to pursue?
- 02How do finance, legal and compliance teams take part in an acquisition at a payments company?
- 03What does integration work involve after a payments company completes an acquisition?
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