Bruce Lowthers

Bruce Lowthers joined Paysafe as its CEO on May 1, 2022. He also serves as Executive Director on the Paysafe Board.

A high profile payments and fintech executive, Bruce joined 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.