Co-founder
Patrick Collison is CEO and co-founder of Stripe, a technology company that builds programmable financial services, including API-based online payment processing for businesses ranging from early-stage startups to large enterprises such as Ford and Amazon. He co-founded Stripe with his brother John Collison in 2010, with the goal of making it simpler to accept payments on the internet.
Before Stripe, Collison co-founded Auctomatic in 2007 with his brother John, an auction and marketplace management system that was acquired by Canadian company Live Current Media in 2008 for $5 million. In 2021, he co-founded Arc Institute, a nonprofit biomedical research organization focused on curiosity-driven science, operating in partnership with Stanford, UCSF, and UC Berkeley. In 2020, he co-founded Fast Grants with economist Tyler Cowen to fund COVID-19-related science. Collison was born in Limerick, Ireland on 9 September 1988 and grew up in Dromineer, County Tipperary. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology before dropping out in 2009. Prior to university, he won the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005 at age sixteen, with a project involving the creation of Croma, a LISP-type programming language.
Crypto & Stablecoins
Ria Bhutoria is a digital finance expert and general partner at Castle Island Ventures, with a background in fintech equity research at Credit Suisse and experience accelerating stablecoin adoption at Stripe. She holds a degree from NYU Stern School of Business.
Crypto Partnerships
Sarah Clansky is Crypto Partnerships at Stripe, a role she has held since July 2025. Prior to this, she spent over three years at Stripe in Strategic Partnerships from April 2022 to July 2025, based in New York.
Before joining Stripe, Clansky served as Director of Channel Partnerships at Afterpay from October 2020 to April 2022, based in New York. Prior to that, she spent nearly three years at Square from November 2017 to October 2020, holding roles across Partner Manager and Product Partnerships. Earlier in her career, she held multiple roles at DoubleDutch between May 2014 and November 2017, progressing from Customer Success Manager through to Senior Account Manager and Channel Program Manager. She holds a degree from the University of San Francisco.
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Global Head of Digital Money, HSBC
Lewis Sun is HSBC's Global Head of Digital Money and Global Head of Domestic & Emerging Payments within Global Payments Solutions, based in Hong Kong. He joined HSBC in 2002 as a Product Manager in mainland China and has held senior payments roles including Head of GPS for HSBC China and Regional Head of Product Management for Asia Pacific. He is a frequent speaker on digital money, CBDCs and tokenized deposits at Sibos and the Singapore FinTech Festival.
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