Paysafe Limited (“Paysafe”) (PSFE: NYSE) (PSFE.WS) is a leading specialized payments platform. Its core purpose is to enable businesses and consumers to connect and transact seamlessly through industry-leading capabilities in payment processing, digital wallet, and online cash solutions.

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Gersh offers a proven track record of over 25 years’ international financial leadership and has previously held CFO positions in public and private organisations in both the UK and US.

Gersh joined Paysafe from Sportradar, the leading global sports technology company creating immersive experiences for sports fans and bettors, where he built a high-performing finance function and successfully led the company’s IPO on NASDAQ in September last year. Earlier in his career, he spent six years in the online betting industry, most recently as CFO and Board Director of Paddy Power Betfair plc, which was formed in February 2016 following the merger of Paddy Power plc and Betfair Group plc – two of the fastest-growing online betting operators in the world. Before entering the online betting industry, Gersh spent nearly eight years as CFO for NDS Group London, a leading global provider of digital pay TV software solutions. In his earlier career, Gersh held finance leadership roles for high-profile organisations in the telecommunications industry including British Telecom and Motorola.

Alex Gersh

Walt Macnee is a Non-Executive Director at [Paysafe](/org/paysafe). Walt was previously the Vice Chairman at [Mastercard](/org/mastercard), where they spearheaded a number of initiatives to create meaningful public-private partnerships around the world. Much of the work has centered on financial inclusion: bringing basic financial products to the 2 billion people without access today. Walt founded the [Mastercard](/org/mastercard) Center for Inclusive Growth and acted as its Chairman. The Center combines research and direct philanthropy and looks for the best ways to drive inclusive growth economies.

From 2008 to 2011, Walt was the President of International Markets at [Mastercard](/org/mastercard), and was responsible for the company’s business in over 200 countries. Prior positions at [Mastercard](/org/mastercard) included President of the Americas and of Canada.

Before their time at [Mastercard](/org/mastercard), Walt was the Executive Vice President, Cards & Collection at [CIBC](/org/cibc) from January 2004 to December 2006. Prior to that, they worked in Retail & Investment Banking at TD from January 1983 to December 2001.

Walt Macnee completed a Bachelor of Education at [Queen's University](/org/queens-university), followed by a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences also from [Queen's University](/org/queens-university). Walt then went on to earn their MBA in Finance and Marketing from [York University](/org/york-university).

Walt Macnee

Zak Cutler leads Paysafe’s gaming strategy globally including all gaming and gambling sectors that the company serves. 

An experienced online gaming executive, Zak has a proven track record in strategy and corporate development, product management, payments, compliance and business development for industry leading operators and suppliers.

Before Paysafe, Zak worked for Jackpocket, an innovative app that enables people to buy official state lottery tickets online, where he was VP of Strategy and Product.  As one of Jackpocket’s first executive hires, he was responsible for developing the strategy, the product and the approach that enabled Jackpocket to swiftly expand into 10 U.S. jurisdictions, achieving a #7 entertainment app store ranking, and acquiring millions of new lottery customers in the process.  While there, he also worked with celebrities, sports teams, and large media brands such as Barstool Sports to successfully grow Jackpocket’s brand presence nationally. Before that, Cutler worked as Director of Product Management for DraftKings, one of the world’s best-known brands in sports entertainment and gaming, where he was responsible for all product initiatives related to payment processing, U.S. compliance, and international expansion.

Zakary Cutler

Afshin joined Paysafe in July 2020 and leads the company’s Global Merchant Solutions team focused on providing processing solutions to hundreds of thousands of merchants around the world.  

Afshin brings extensive leadership experience with FinTech organizations. Before joining Paysafe, he held the role of President and CEO of New York-based Cynergy Data until its merger with Priority Technology Holdings in 2014, where he continued as President of the combined companies.  During his tenure at PRTH, Afshin grew the organization into a top 10 US Processor and helped lead the company’s listing on the NASDAQ exchange.  Earlier in his career, Afshin was a co-founder and Executive Vice President and General Counsel of iPayment, Inc., also leading the growth of that company into one of the top payment processors in the US and a listing on the NASDAQ exchange in 2003.  Afshin has also sat on the boards of several other FinTech organizations during his career.

Afshin holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School in Atlanta and a Juris Doctor (JD) law degree from the University of Miami in Miami, Florida. Afshin is active in numerous non-profits and sits on the board of the Nashville JCC.

Afshin Yazdian

Bruce Lowthers joined [Paysafe](/org/paysafe) as its CEO on May 1, 2022.  He also serves as Executive Director on the [Paysafe](/org/paysafe) Board.

A high profile payments and fintech executive, Bruce joined [Paysafe](/org/paysafe) following a 15-year tenure at FIS, a Fortune 500 company operating in the payments, merchant solutions and banking space.  While at FIS, Bruce most recently served as President, responsible for growing the global organization. In this role, Bruce was credited with accelerating the speed to market of innovative new products and services, heightening cross sell opportunities, and strengthening the overall client experience.  Earlier executive roles in FIS saw Bruce leading and modernizing some of the company’s largest businesses including the Banking and Merchant Solutions and Payments businesses. 

Before FIS, Bruce was an executive at eFunds, an electronic payments company, where he was responsible for all payment and risk products. Before eFunds, he was a serial entrepreneur and successfully co-founded and led four start-up companies and two payments industry associations -namely the Board for American Transaction Processors Coalition (ATPC) and Payments 20 (P20), the global payments body.

In 2020, Bruce was named Business Unit Transformation and Operational Excellence President of the Year.  The year before, he was named Executive of the Year in the BIG Awards for Business, and he has also been recognized as Operations Executive of the Year by the Best in Biz Awards in 2018 and 2019.

Bruce holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Massachusetts and began his career as a certified public accountant.

Bruce Lowthers

Dan has a proven track record of driving growth in multiple global companies over a 30+ year career with demonstrated expertise in the capital markets, financial services and technology industries. 

He worked for General Electric Company for 29 years, where he held a variety of senior positions at GE and GE Capital, including Chief Marketing Officer of GE and Six Sigma quality leader at GE Capital.  He also served as CEO of a number of GE Capital’s financial services businesses in the U.S. and internationally.  

Since 2016, Dan has held a wide range of executive and non-executive board positions.  He was previously Director of [Healthcare Trust of America](/org/healthcare-trust-of-america) and lead Director of OnDeck Capital.  Following that, he served on the boards of various [Blackstone](/org/blackstone) investments including as non-executive Chairman of [Exeter Finance](/org/exeter-finance-corp), a leading auto finance company, and non-executive Chairman of Tempo Holdings, the former parent company of [Alight Solutions](/org/alight-solutions), a leading cloud-based provider of integrated digital human capital and business solutions.

Following the listing of [Alight Solutions](/org/alight-solutions) on the NYSE in July last year, after a business combination agreement with Foley Trasimene Acquisition Corp., William P. Foley II became Chairman of the newly formed board and Dan was appointed as Director with responsibility for overseeing the nomination and governance committee.  He also serves as non-executive Chairman of IntraFi Network, a privately held firm serving approximately one-third of all U.S. commercial banks and thrift institutions. 

Dan holds a B.B.A. in Marketing from [George Washington University](/org/gwu).

Dan Henson

Rob joined Paysafe in July 2022 and is the company’s first Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). In his role, Rob is charged with spearheading Paysafe’s international sales function across a range of high growth sectors including gaming, travel, entertainment, digital assets including crypto, and fintech. 

A seasoned technology executive, Gatto brings 30+ years’ experience of delivering transformational growth and ‘go to market’ functions for both private and public businesses of all sizes. He has helped build multiple fast-growing businesses that have led to an IPO or sale to technology leaders that include IBM, Oracle, NeuStar and Adobe. His functional areas of expertise include sales, marketing, channel development, business development, client support, consulting, operations, and corporate development.

Before Paysafe, he co-founded and served as President of Ureeka Inc. a community to help small businesses go to market and grow rapidly. Before that, he held senior roles for a wide range of high-performing technology companies including COO at Tubemogul, a programmatic video platform acquired by Adobe Systems for $540m; SVP, Global Sales at NeuStar, Inc., a cloud-based, information services company; CEO at PointRoll, Inc., a leading provider of digital marketing technology; and Vice President Sales for ShopLocal Inc. known for its innovative, localized digital marketing solutions for retailers.

Rob holds a Bachelor of Science in Communications from Northern Illinois University, U.S.A.

Rob Gatto

Roy joined Paysafe in February 2019 as Chief Information Officer (CIO). Based in our London office, Roy has responsibility for the global IT strategy, running the 24x7 technology operation, cyber security and driving forward our ambitious technology transformation plans which include the cloud-based payments platform.

Before joining Paysafe, Roy gained extensive experience in IT working for various high profile global financial services organisations and smaller UK-based fintech.

He most recently worked for Barclaycard where he held the position of CIO since April 2013. Before that he held senior roles at Citi, where he was Director of Business and Technology Transformation, as well as egg, where his extensive Agile IT Development skills were deployed to help re-launch a new digital experience for customers of this internet-based UK bank.

Roy Aston

Chirag Patel is an international payments executive with over 20 years’ experience gained in a diverse range of roles for well-known, global organizations.  During his career he has launched and grown multiple consumer-facing and B2B payments products and services around the world including alternative payment methods, prepaid, card payments, and remittance. As part of this, he has managed P&Ls up to 5 billion euros in annual revenue and focussed heavily on the customer experience, making decisions based on data and a strong strategic vision.

Chirag joins Paysafe from Santander Group where he was Global Head of Payments.  While there, he successfully launched a global payment platform that significantly increased usage of the bank’s payments products and services.  Before Santander, Chirag was Head of Payments, Europe and International Expansion at Amazon where he owned the tech giant’s long-term vision and end-to-end roadmap for emerging payment technologies as well as European payment acceptance and international payment expansion. Before Amazon, he held senior executive roles in payments and financial services for other well-known financial institutions including Softcard (acquired by Google), American Express Services Europe Limited and Merchant Services Group Int.

Based in the UK, Chirag also has extensive experience of working in the US, where he has lived, as well as Asia and Latin America.

Chirag Patel

Elliott joined Paysafe in 2011, is based in our London office, and has responsibility for legal, privacy, compliance and company secretarial matters within the Group.

Elliott started life as a corporate lawyer working at a few different London-based law firms principally on mergers, acquisitions and other corporate transactions. He made his first move in-house in 2008 when he became Senior Legal Counsel at MoneyGram. In this role, he was responsible for legal affairs in their Northern Europe and Asia Pacific.



Elliott Wiseman

Nick is Paysafe’s Chief HR Officer and has been with the company since 2012 when he joined Skrill. Prior to this, Nick has worked in multiple international HR roles within the technology industry including stints living and working in Malaysia and Paris; carving out a niche in international HR, acquisition, transformation and change.



Nick Walker

Richard joined Paysafe in October 2019 as Chief Risk Officer.

Richard brings extensive knowledge of the risk discipline gained during a 30+ year career which has seen him work in Europe, Asia and the US. He started his career working in the public sector as an Officer for the UK’s HM Customs & Excise followed by more than 25 years in banking, commercial finance, insurance, telecoms and payments with a focus on risk management, compliance, operational effectiveness, strategy and business development. Richard has also led initiatives in developing markets with an emphasis on financial inclusion.

He joined Paysafe from PayPal where he spent the last nine years leading their global risk and compliance strategy and was instrumental in supporting significant growth for the business.

Richard Swales

CEO Chi-Eun joined Paysafe in October 2019 as Chief of Staff to Philip. 

Before joining Paysafe, Chi-Eun was business development director at Barclaycard Payment Solutions, leading initiatives on strategic partnerships, international growth and innovation strategy. Prior to joining Barclaycard, she worked at McKinsey & Co. and LG Electronics Europe. She studied psychology at Yonsei University in Korea and has an MBA from Harvard. 

Outside of work, Chi-Eun is involved in a charity called Spear which helps transform lives of disadvantaged youths aged 16-24 years old by helping them get jobs or go back into school

Chi-Eun Lee

Mark joined the Paysafe Board in July 2021 and brings extensive, complementary experience to the team. 

Mark was previously Chief Operating Officer for Trainline, Europe’s largest independent retailer of rail and coach tickets.  Before Trainline, he was Chief Operating Officer of Betfair Group PLC, a leading online gambling operator and now part of Flutter Entertainment.  In his earlier career, Mark spent 17 years in investment banking working for the likes of Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, NatWest and NM Rothschild & Sons.

Mark also brings a diverse range of Non-Executive Board Director experience and currently sits on the boards of Findmypast, a leader in online genealogy, where he is Chairman; Future PLC, a global platform for specialist media and member of the FTSE250; Equiniti Group, a leading provider of share registration, pension administration and other technology enabled business outsourcing; and Seedrs, a digital fund-raising platform for early-stage businesses. He also recently served as a Non-Executive Director of William Hill PLC, one of the largest gambling operators in the UK, before the Board was dissolved following its acquisition by Caesars Entertainment in April this year. 

Mark holds a Master’s Degree in Engineering, Economics and Management from Oxford University in the UK. 

Mark Brooker

Dagmar Kollmann

Anthony Jabbour

Hilary Stewart-Jones

Jim Murren

Jonathan Murphy

Matthew Bryant

Eli Nagler is a Non-Executive Director at [Paysafe](/org/paysafe). Eli has previously held positions at [Ellucian](/org/ellucian), [Sphera](/org/sphera), IntraFi, [Refinitiv](/org/refinitiv), and [Paysafe](/org/paysafe) Group. Eli also served on the Board of Directors for Lendmark Financial Services from October 2013 to September 2019. In 2011, they worked as a Summer Policy Advisor in the Office of Capital Markets at the US Department of the Treasury.

Eli Nagler studied economics at [Harvard University](/org/harvard) and then went on to get their MBA from [Harvard Business School](/org/harvard-business-school).

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