GLOBAL COMMUNIty COUNCIL

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Inspiring women. All over the world.

Our Global Community council has a single mandate: to engage and inspire women all over the world. At Women In Payments, our culture is collaborative and inclusive, so our council leaders listen to our members first. Why? Because we want our global membership to contribute and define how our community grows. Women in our council are keen to hear your feedback, and motivated to help members network with other change-making women locally and globally.

Reach out to learn more about the Council, or apply for a position, today!

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OUR GLOBAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL

BIANCA CALVO

Legal Manager

N26 Brasil

BIANCA CALVO

Bianca is a lawyer passionate for the payment sector. She has more than 10 years of experience in banking and fintech industry. She created and is leading a legal department in a multinational fintech.

RONEL DAVID

Senior Sales Executive, EMEA

FIS Global

RONEL DAVID

Ronel is a business and sales leader with 20 years multinational experience in banking and fintech with P/L responsibility currently at FIS. She has led strategic change initiatives and expanded business operational capability in different regions including defining & executing growth strategy, championing innovation and expansion into new territories. Inclusion & diversity champion as FIS Empower Global Steering Committee member responsible for Partnership Development.

ELLIE HEWITT

Director - Real Time Payments, EMEA

Visa

ELLIE HEWITT

Ellie is the European strategy lead for Visa’s open banking and real time payments area, focusing on building out Visa’s network of networks new flows strategy and designing new open banking solutions and propositions that are transformative and next-generation for their clients.

A proud Australian, Ellie is now based in London and was awarded the Women in Payments UK Rising Star award in 2020.

KRITI JAIN

Director, New Age Economy, Fintech and Platforms

Deutsche Bank

KRITI JAIN

Kriti is the APAC Sales Lead - New Age Economy, Fintech and Platforms, enabling corporate and merchant solutions at Deutsche Bank. In this role, she facilitates business growth by providing strategic advisory and capturing new opportunities by leveraging on her expertise and deep understanding of the payments landscape, risk and controls. Prior to APAC, she worked in the payments sector with renowned foreign banks and fintechs across the Asia-Pacific region.

LAURA MCGORTEY

Product Group Manager - Payments and Payables

Synovus

United States

LAURA MCGORTEY

Laura is the Product Group Manager - Payments and Payables with Synovus (Bank) Treasury and Payment Services. She has more than 20 years of experience covering a wide range of functions in the banking and payments industry.

I am passionate about the digitization of business and experienced in building and launching new products and solutions, moving from the art-of-the possible to mainstream.

SHIVANI MUKHERJEE

Strategic Partnerships Leader ASEAN

Thought Machine

SHIVANI MUKHERJEE

Shivani is the Strategic Partnerships Leader at Thought Machine. With over a decade of experience, she helps bridge value-propositions with consumers and corporate users of payment transaction systems. Shivani's expertise includes building products for backend reconciliation systems in the B2B ecosystem to frontend wallets for B2C. A flexible leader who collaborates with diverse teams, she manages intricate projects, achieves stakeholder buy-in for crucial development initiatives, and deftly navigates dynamic markets.

YASMIN ULRICH

Leader Product and Business Strategy

Western Union

United States

YASMIN ULRICH

Growing up, Yasmin was a professional tennis player touring the WTA at age 16. After a knee surgery that abruptly ended her career, she found a new passion in banking and consistently evolved into a cross-border payments expert over the past decade.

She joined Western Union Business Solutions in Germany in 2012 and is now on the Enterprise Partnership Commercial Development Team to take on Partnership Strategic insights.

PATRICIA YUN

Head of Digital Commerce

TD Bank

Canada

PATRICIA YUN

Patricia is Head of Digital Commerce for TD Merchant Solutions which provides leading e-commerce payment solutions to small business, commercial and corporate clients. She leads product design, commercialization and go-to-market strategies for digital commerce including partnerships and sales enablement for frontline.