Product professionals in Payments
Payments product titles and descriptions here name Braintree, the Authorize.net and CyberSource gateways, alternative payment methods, token services, issuing and ePayments, and belong to people at PayPal, Visa, Worldpay, Mastercard, Verifone, Giesecke+Devrient and Adyen. Three now hold PayPal titles. They suit a payments company or merchant platform deciding which merchant problem to solve next, or how to trade approval rates against fraud and cost.
Professionals to explore
Archana Prasad
LinkedInExperience: Former SVP, Chief Product Officer, WorldPay for Platforms · Worldpay
From 2022 to 2024, Archana Prasad was SVP, Chief Product Officer, WorldPay for Platforms at Worldpay, then Head of Product - Data & Platforms at Remitly (2024-2025). Prasad has been SVP, Payments and Financial Services at BILL since 2025, Board Advisor at Ballerine since 2023 and Advisor at Berkeley SkyDeck since 2024, and describes building new products and businesses from scratch, useful for payments-for-platforms questions.
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Jeff Pomeroy
LinkedInExperience: Former Vice President Product & Issuing · Adyen
At Adyen, Jeff Pomeroy was Vice President Product & Issuing (2019-2022), and Pomeroy has been Senior Vice President of Payments, Services & Platforms at PayPal since 2024, after SVP Product Omnicommerce at Fiserv (2022-2024). Pomeroy was also Vice President of Product at Bento for Business (2017-2019) and Vice President Product at Blackhawk Network (2011-2016), a fit for issuing and for online and physical payments questions.
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Kiran Badi
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product Management · PayPal
At PayPal since 2015, Kiran Badi has been Director of Product Management, described as Head of Alternative Payment Methods (APMs) managing non-card payment methods. Badi was Vice President at Chase (2013-2015), Senior Manager at Capital One (2012-2013) and at HSBC (2006-2012), and PLM Consultant & Program Manager at Cambridge Solutions (2005-2006), a fit for questions on adding non-card and alternative payment methods.
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Madhu Vasu
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President, Global Product · Verifone
With 20+ years as a product leader in payments and fintech by their own count, Madhu Vasu is Senior Vice President, Global Product at Verifone (since 2024), after Head of Product at Vindicia (2023-2024). Vasu was Senior Vice President Product Management at FIS (2021-2022), Vice President of Product Management at Marqeta (2019-2021) and an Investor and Advisor at GigZter (2021-2024).
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Mikko Kähkönen
LinkedInExperience: EVP Global Product ePayments · Giesecke+Devrient
Mikko Kähkönen has been EVP Global Product ePayments at Giesecke+Devrient since 2020 and Chairman of the Advisory Board at Smart Payment Association (SPA) since 2020. Kähkönen's earlier Giesecke+Devrient titles are Product Manager (2008-2011), Product Management Director Payment & Transit (2012-2016) and Head Of Product Management Payment (2016-2020), and Kähkönen argues that interoperability matters more than any single payment rail.
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Nana Yaa Mensah
LinkedInExperience: Former Product Director · Worldpay
Since 2015, Nana Yaa Mensah has been Product Director at Worldpay, after Business Analyst at intelliflo (2011-2015). Mensah was Head of Testing and Analysis at Evaluate Technologies Ltd. (2006-2010) and an Underwriter at Primrose Associates (2004-2006) and The Woolwich (GHL) (2004-2005), and cites 20 years in fintech and financial services, a fit for questions on simplifying complex payment processes.
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Priyanshi Mathur
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Product Management · Mastercard
Vice President, Product Management at Mastercard since 2025, Priyanshi Mathur describes leading a transformation project to converge fragmented capabilities into shared services. Mathur was Head of Product, Minna Technologies at Mastercard (2022-2025) and, at Minna Technologies, a Mastercard company, Head of Product and Director of Product Management (2023-2025) and Director of Product and Engineering (2023).
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Purnima Chaudhry
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Product - Braintree Payments & Value-Added Services · PayPal
Purnima Chaudhry has been Senior Director of Product - Braintree Payments & Value-Added Services at PayPal since 2025, describing the role as global head of product and P&L owner for Braintree's online and in-store payments. Chaudhry's earlier PayPal titles are Manager II , Product Management (2019-2020), Group Product Manager (2020-2022), Director of Product Management (2022-2024) and GM & Senior Director - Head of Product & Data Science (2024-2025).
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Sourabh Pandey
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product Management (Authorize.net payment gateway) · Visa
Two Visa gateways appear in Sourabh Pandey's titles: Director of Product Management (Authorize.net payment gateway) since 2023, and Lead Technical Product Manager (Director Level), CyberSource Payment Gateway (2019-2022). Pandey's other Visa titles cover Visa Direct product growth in South Asia and real-time payments, and Pandey cites 11+ years in payments, fraud and risk and financial crime prevention.
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Sushovan Sarkar
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director, Product Management Visa DPS Forward · Visa
Sushovan Sarkar holds the Sr. Director, Product Management Visa DPS Forward title at Visa (since 2022). Sarkar's earlier Visa titles are Staff SW Engineer Visa Checkout (Click-To-Pay) (2013-2014), Director, Technical Product Manager Visa Token Services (2014-2016), Director, Technical Product Management Visa Direct (2016-2017) and Director, Product Management Visa Mobile Enablement Platform and Digital SDK (2017-2022).
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Choose the right perspective
For gateway products, Purnima Chaudhry at Braintree and Sourabh Pandey at Authorize.net and CyberSource are the closest fit, and Kiran Badi covers alternative payment methods. Sushovan Sarkar suits token services and digital SDKs, Mikko Kähkönen ePayments and interoperability, Jeff Pomeroy issuing and omnicommerce, and Archana Prasad, Madhu Vasu, Priyanshi Mathur and Nana Yaa Mensah platform and fintech product strategy.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01When adding a new payment method, how do you judge whether merchants will turn it on and whether shoppers will use it?
- 02How do you trade off approval rates against fraud losses when changing a checkout or authorization flow?
- 03What slows merchant integration most often, and which changes to the gateway or SDK sped it up?
About this directory
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