Sabrina is the senior vice president of global fintech programs at Mastercard. She leads the award-winning global startup engagement program, Start Path, which works with select later-stage startups and helps them to scale, leveraging a customized combination of Mastercard’s technology, expertise and channels. These companies cover a diverse set of areas including payments, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, wearables, logistics and financial inclusion.

Prior to Start Path, Sabrina worked in Mastercard’s digital payments organization, where she helped build and commercialize several new payment technologies such as Mastercard’s tokenization platform and Mastercard Send.

Sabrina received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Cornell University with concentrations in technology and entrepreneurship. She has been a volunteer with The Resolution Project since 2014.

Celeste Schwitters leads a national team of sales professionals and is responsible for business development for over 5,000+ US-based community clients as Head of Community Accounts. Her team is comprised of eight regional Vice Presidents, with Account Executives that reside in almost every one of the 50 states, ensuring a local Visa presence. Celeste and her team enable and accelerate payments growth for this set of important clients.

Celeste has been at Visa for 26+ years and has held various positions across the company. Prior to her current role, Celeste managed the North America Client Services team, comprised of 400+ team members providing industry leading operational and implementation support to Visa’s North American clients. Earlier in her career, fostering her passion for community accounts, Celeste worked for the Independent Community Bankers Association (ICBA) in Washington D.C.

Celeste holds an undergraduate degree from Michigan State University and an MBA from University of Colorado at Denver.

asturi Mudulodu leads GoDaddy’s commerce division, focusing on empowering entrepreneurs with robust ecommerce platforms and innovative point-of-sale systems. These solutions, coupled with competitive payment processing services, are designed to help businesses succeed online and offline, aligning with GoDaddy’s commitment to comprehensive, accessible commerce tools.

Before her current role, Kasturi led product, go-to-market, and risk for GoDaddy’s commerce team. Kasturi joined GoDaddy following the Poynt acquisition, where she led the transition from payment terminals to a payment facilitator. Her career also includes leadership roles in product management at YapStone, Worldpay, and Litle & Co. Her career began as a software engineer, contributing to her comprehensive understanding of the tech and payments industry.

Taira Hall is head of enterprise payments at Citizens Financial Group, Inc. In her role she collaborates and partners closely across Consumer, Business and Commercial lines of business to drive an effective unified payment strategy for Citizens. In addition, she leads the Embedded Finance practice across Citizens. With a penchant for innovation and partnership, Taira has 20 years of banking and payments experience. She most recently served as Senior Vice President of Embedded Finance, B2B & Strategic Innovation Executive at FIS. She has a proven track record of building new business lines in high growth areas, and has expertise in fintech, embedded finance and B2B payments.

Hall has held executive leadership roles at Visa and Citigroup focused on developing and deploying market-leading global solutions. She has led the deployment and growth of the Embedded Finance business across BaaS, card issuance and other VAS areas. In 2023, Taira was a nominee for the USA Award Women in Payments and in 2019, was named one of PaymentSource’s “Most Influential Women in Payments,” honoring her accomplishments in the innovation and payments space and as a leader and a mentor of women across the industry.

Broadening financial inclusion around the world has remained one of Taira’s guiding principles throughout her career, and she is committed to supporting organizations that provide for sustainable local impact. She has served on the Board of several organizations, including One Acre Fund and the Peer Health Exchange. Taira holds her Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Stanford University and her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and three children.

Paul has oversight over the next generation of digital platforms to provide best in class Online and Mobile capabilities. As part of the digital strategy, Paul is responsible for TD’s API functionality and ensuring TD delivers an open banking infrastructure to support clients and FinTech partnerships. These new and improved capabilities will maximize value and enhance the Customer experience for TD Bank’s Commercial clients.

Paul has more than 15 years of experience in financial services focused on building and scaling digital products as well as developing comprehensive strategies for global banks. He joins TD from J.P. Morgan Chase (JPM), where he was responsible for fintech partnerships and blockchain-based products for its treasury management business. Previously, Paul spent time at PwC where he led risk and capital projects at several global banks. Additionally, Paul founded PwC’s RegTech practice, which uses technology to manage regulatory processes. As a result, Paul formed several partnerships with emerging RegTechs that deploy emerging technology to reduce fraud.

Pedro Dias is a fintech leader with deep experience in strategy, venture capital, and financial technology. He currently leads U.S. strategy at Simetrik, a Series B fintech backed by Goldman Sachs, Tiger Global, Fintech Collective, and others, helping scale its presence and partnerships in the US market.

Before Simetrik, Pedro co-founded Atman Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund focused on fintech, B2B SaaS, and longevity startups. He also played a key role at Riskified (IPO July 2021), where he launched a new product for financial institutions and card issuers.

Pedro started his career at J.P. Morgan, where he spent seven years in San Francisco and New York, covering technology startups from Brazil and gaining deep expertise in financial services and emerging markets.