Senior Partnerships Manager, Crypto
Ali Al Balaghi is Senior Partnerships Manager, Crypto at Worldpay, a role he has held since March 2025. He is based in Miami Beach, Florida. In this capacity, he has been involved in Worldpay's participation in the Global Dollar Network, which delivers payment solutions via USDG on Solana.
Al Balaghi has over ten years of experience in go-to-market strategy and business development within payments and digital assets. Prior to Worldpay, he served as Senior Sales Manager, Crypto at Paysafe from September 2024 to March 2025. Before that, he spent nearly two years as Senior Manager, Global Business Development at Bitget, where he led the GTM strategy for launching the exchange's fiat operations. During that period, Bitget's monthly revenue grew to over $150 million within 20 months of launch, and its global exchange ranking advanced from top 70 to top 10 for spot and derivatives. His work at Bitget included strategic partnership development, entity incorporation, market expansion, M&A activity, licensing and regulatory compliance, and payment integrations across SEPA, Faster Payments, UnionPay, MIR, SWIFT, PIX, card schemes, and open banking.
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