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Belkis Barral is Sr Director Digital Products, Head of Tokenization at Visa, based in Miami, where she leads the Digital Payment Solutions team covering Latin America and the Caribbean. Her mandate covers digital solutions strategy and execution for tokenization and authentication across the region. She has held this role since October 2017.

In her current position, Barral designed and implemented a digital solutions product strategy across multiple products and platforms, achieving results that exceeded annual revenue goals by 130%. She executed a strategy to scale issuer tokenization capabilities and increase token adoption, contributing to the creation of millions of new digital credentials across the region. She also led the Click to Pay strategy on the issuer, acceptance, and partnership side, and directed the Visa Ready program, certifying a significant number of partners over a six-year period. Prior to this role, she served as Emerging Products Director at Visa from December 2012 to October 2017, during which she led the first tokenization product launch. Her total experience at Visa spans over 27 years. Her stated areas of expertise include risk management, authentication, EMV standards for tokenization, cryptography, and Payment Card Industry and Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). She holds a Master of Business Administration focused in Business Administration and Management, and a Master's degree in Robotics and Electronics.

Cuy Sheffield is Vice President and Head of Crypto at Visa, a position he has held since June 2019. He leads the global crypto product team within the fintech product organization, focusing on connecting crypto and blockchain networks to Visa's payment network. He is a fellow at the Visa Economic Empowerment Institute, co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Cryptocurrencies, and a member of the advisory group for the Digital Dollar Project.

Sheffield joined Visa in April 2015 via the acquisition of TrialPay, a fintech startup where he worked in business development and partnerships. Prior to TrialPay, he was a Strategic Partnerships Associate at Yub, a company later acquired by Coupons.com, and before that co-founded Pomona Ventures, a student-run accelerator at Pomona College. He holds a B.A. in Sociology from Pomona College, where he studied from 2009 to 2013. He has been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, and TechCrunch, and was named to the Cointelegraph Top People in Crypto and Blockchain list in 2022.

Dan Roesbery is Vice President, Global Partnerships & Crypto GTM at Visa, a role he has held since November 2024. He leads teams responsible for global strategic partnerships and the global go-to-market and sales function for Visa's crypto solutions. Visa's crypto solutions portfolio includes crypto cards, ramps, stablecoin issuance via VTAP, stablecoin settlement, crypto consulting, payouts, and prefunding. On the partnerships side, he oversees relationships with major payments, enterprise, crypto, and consumer platforms, working to advance their payments and commerce initiatives in collaboration with Visa.

Roesbery has approximately 15 years of professional experience spanning product development and go-to-market, business development, strategic partnerships, strategy, business analytics, sales, sales operations, product marketing, pricing, and operations, across fintech, payments, retail, B2B software, and consumer products segments. He has held leadership positions at companies across start-up, growth, and enterprise stages. Since January 2023, he has served as a Growth Advisor at The Financial Club, a community for finance and technology professionals. He also contributed as a team member to a Visa Economic Empowerment Institute study on digital remittances, which examined remittance trends, the cost trajectory of digital remittances, and recommendations for improving global money movement.

Eduardo Lopez is a senior manager with extensive experience in general management, sales, and marketing, currently based in Greater Madrid and associated with Boston Scientific.

Giancarlo Albertini is Director, Account Executive – US Fintech Partnerships at Visa, a position he has held since December 2025. His focus spans fintech, banking, sales and business development, and US and LATAM payments, with additional stated interest in distributed ledger technology and artificial intelligence.

Albertini's career includes two separate tenures at Visa. Prior to his current director-level role, he served as Sr. Business Development Manager at Visa from December 2021 to July 2022, based in Miami. Between those two Visa roles, he worked as Sr. Business Development Manager at Revolut from August 2022 to July 2024, followed by Director of Solution Sales, Banking and Financial Services at Innova Solutions from August 2024 to May 2025. Since April 2025, he has concurrently served as Board Advisor for Commercial Strategy and Market Development at 3CORTEX, a software development firm. He is based in Miami, Florida, and attended Babson College.

Jesse McGannon is Go-to-Market Strategy, Crypto Products at Visa, a role he has held since July 2025. Based in San Francisco, he is focused on building and distributing stablecoin-based payments at Visa.

Prior to joining Visa, McGannon served as Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Partnerships at InvestiFi from April 2023 to April 2024, where he owned strategic partnerships and go-to-market strategy for a digital investment platform serving credit unions. Before that, he spent three years as Vice President of Digital Asset Advisory Services at Strategic Resource Management (SRM), advising financial institutions on operational process improvements and technology strategy across cross-border payments, faster payments, digital banking, and intelligent automation. Earlier in his career, McGannon spent over six years as a Senior Consulting Manager at Accenture's Financial Services Management Consulting practice, where he worked on payments, product commercialization, process effectiveness, and organizational change management, advising US and Canadian financial institutions, fintech companies, credit card networks, and issuer processors.

Liza Gillooly is Global Director of FinTech BD at Visa. In that capacity, she has been involved in the partnership between Visa and Karta, an Australian-based FinTech backed by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, which in 2024 became the first non-bank private label issuer in the US to process transactions on VisaNet. Gillooly has spoken to the commercial opportunity this partnership creates for Visa merchants, noting that the integration of Karta's technology with the Visa network enables merchants to issue gift cards that are digitally secure and generate shopping preference data for issuers. Prior to her role at Visa, she held the position of Global Strategic Partnerships Manager at Quadpay.

Pierre Castronovo is Fintech Lead - Netherlands at Visa, a position he has held since February 2024. His stated mandate is to foster partnership and collaboration with the Dutch fintech ecosystem. He also holds a concurrent role focused on Stablecoins GTM, as indicated by his profile headline. In his first year, he secured new business contributing to growth in average annual net revenue, established partnerships with three fintech scale-ups operating in issuance, open banking, and Tap-To-Pay, and organised a Visa fintech event with over 130 attendees. He has promoted Visa products including FlexCredentials and A2A at these engagements, and has mentored fintech founders through Startupbootcamp.

Prior to Visa, Castronovo spent six years at Accenture as Manager, Strategy & Consulting, based primarily in Dublin and Amsterdam. His project work there included defining digital retail banking and commercial strategy for a large Dutch retail bank, supporting the market entry of a Dutch digital insurer into Spain, and leading business development for the international expansion of a digital insurance platform from the Netherlands to Toronto. He is also co-founder of BuurBox, a peer-to-peer storage platform founded in 2025. His earlier career was in architecture, having worked as an architecture engineer at several Belgian practices between 2004 and 2009. He holds a Master's degree in Civil Engineering and Architecture from the University of Liège, where he studied from 1996 to 2004.

Rubail Birwadker is Global Head of Growth Products and Strategic Partnerships at Visa, a role he has held since November 2024. His mandate covers global partnerships, AI and agentic commerce product development, consumer and non-card product development, crypto and stablecoins, and global business development.

Birwadker has been a named spokesperson on Visa's stablecoin settlement initiatives. In December 2024, he commented on the launch of USDC settlement in the United States, through which U.S. issuer and acquirer partners — including Cross River Bank and Lead Bank — can settle with Visa in Circle's USDC over the Solana blockchain. In July 2025, he spoke to Visa's expansion of its stablecoin settlement platform to support two additional dollar-backed stablecoins (Global Dollar and PayPal USD) via a partnership with Paxos, two additional blockchains (Stellar and Avalanche), and Circle's euro-backed EURC. Visa's stablecoin settlement program reported annualized volume exceeding $3.5 billion as of late 2024. Prior to his current role, Birwadker served as Global Head of Investments and Acquisitions, covering corporate development, ventures, and M&A integration from February 2022 to October 2024. Before that he was Senior Vice President of Digital Partnerships and Fintech, and Head of Digital Partnerships for North America. He joined Visa in August 2011 as an Analyst in Interchange Pricing, and has held progressively senior roles across pricing, strategic partnerships, and digital partnerships throughout his tenure. Between 2014 and 2018, he co-founded SahiNahi, an Indian entertainment portal and Android application. Prior to Visa, he worked in consumer lending strategy at HSBC from January 2007 to August 2011. He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Samah Chowdhury is Senior Director, Treasury, Digital Assets and Innovation at Visa, a position she has held since December 2025, based in Foster City, California. Her role sits within Visa's Finance and Accounting function at Director level.

Prior to joining Visa, Chowdhury served as Senior Director of Innovation Strategy at the American Bankers Association from January 2024 to December 2025, where she acted as a subject matter expert to member banks on stablecoins, digital assets, AI, and Banking-as-a-Service. In that role she advised regional and mid-sized banks on fintech partnerships and venture investments, including go/no-go decisions and pilot strategies across compliance, AI, and SMB solutions. She delivered executive briefings and facilitated strategic planning sessions with more than 50 bank leaders on topics including BaaS, Open Banking, generative AI, stablecoins, and tokenised deposits. She also led research and authored frameworks on digital identity, customer data strategy, and product modernisation. Earlier in her career she held a Senior Manager of Strategy and Innovation role at Interac, where she served as product owner of Interac's Market Intelligence Tool, leading its development, launch, and adoption. She holds an MBA from Rotman School of Management.

Thomas Douchez is Director of Business Development at Visa, covering growth across France, Belgium, and Luxembourg. His work intersects directly with Visa's digital asset initiatives: he has participated as a panellist at the annual OSMP-CNMP conference hosted at the Banque de France, where discussions centred on stability, innovation, competitiveness, and inclusion in European payment systems. He has publicly highlighted that Visa cards function as a payment interface for crypto assets and stablecoins globally.

Within the blockchain infrastructure space, Douchez has been involved in communicating Visa's role as an anchor validator on the Tempo network and as a Super Validator on the Canton Network, the latter making Visa the first international payment company to hold that status on the network. His professional background includes business development and account management in the fintech sector. He holds proficiency in French, English, and German, and completed an apprenticeship that included a module in market finance.