VP, Product Management
Green Dot
With over 15 years of experience across fintech, financial services, and consumer tech, Akhil is a seasoned product leader who thrives on solving complex problems and creating meaningful value for customers and businesses alike. He has a proven track record of launching 0-to-1 products and scaling innovative platforms in highly competitive, regulated markets.
As VP of Product Management at Green Dot, Akhil leads the Embedded Finance product team, responsible for a platform that powers enterprise clients including Amazon, Intuit, Wealthfront, and Crypto.com — enabling millions of customers to seamlessly move money and bank within the platforms they already trust.
Prior to joining Green Dot, Akhil co-founded a fintech startup focused on receivables-based financing for SMEs, and held senior roles at Lyft and Deutsche Bank. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Delhi.
By 2027, payments will be instant, embedded, and largely invisible—shifting the competitive frontier away from access to rails and toward control of the intelligence layer that governs every transaction. As multi-rail complexity accelerates and AI enables real-time decisioning, the real value in payments is concentrating in how transactions are routed, funded, authenticated, and optimized.
This panel brings together senior banking leaders to examine how institutions can evolve from payment providers to orchestrators of money movement. The discussion will explore how banks can embed fraud and identity into the flow, dynamically manage liquidity, and deliver “best execution” across rails—while unlocking new revenue streams from data, insights, and programmable payments. At stake is a defining strategic question: will banks own the decisioning layer—or cede it to networks, fintechs, and platforms that sit closer to the customer?
The panel will explore: