May Zabaneh

May Zabaneh

VP, Head of Crypto / Blockchain & Digital Currencies, Paypal
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May Zabaneh is VP and GM of Crypto at PayPal, leading product strategy for blockchain, crypto and digital currencies including the PYUSD stablecoin. At PayPal since 2007, focused on digital currencies and cross-border remittances since 2021.

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Nick Ceryak

Senior Director, Head of Consumer Strategy (PayPal, Venmo, Crypto)

Nick Ceryak is Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy at PayPal, a position he has held since October 2023. He leads the consumer corporate strategy team and serves as the corporate strategy lead for PayPal's Digital Currencies and Remittances business units.

Prior to his current role, Ceryak served as Manager, Corporate Strategy at PayPal from August 2021 to October 2023. His path to a full-time role at PayPal began during his time at McKinsey & Company, where he worked as a Senior Business Analyst from September 2018 to August 2021, focusing on growth strategy and advanced analytics projects for retail, e-commerce, and technology clients. That tenure included a 12-month externship with PayPal. Earlier in his career, he completed a two-month management consulting internship at KPMG in 2017, working on human capital and compliance strategy for insurance and government regulatory clients. Ceryak is a 2018 graduate of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. During his time at IU, he participated in the Chinese Language Flagship Program, which included a summer abroad with Princeton in Beijing and developed professional-level Chinese language proficiency.

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Sonia P.

Director, Product Marketing Crypto

Sonia P. is Director, Product Marketing Crypto at PayPal, a position she has held since August 2025. In this role, she leads product marketing for PayPal's crypto offerings, based out of San Jose, California.

Prior to joining PayPal, she spent nearly four years at Coinbase as Senior Product Marketing Manager, from November 2021 to August 2025. Before her time in crypto, she held product marketing roles at Slice, where she led B2C product marketing, and at General Motors, where she managed product marketing for the OnStar Guardian mobile app and for emerging markets and crossovers vehicles, a tenure spanning May 2018 to July 2020. She has also co-founded two ventures: Bellbone, a handbag startup she launched in 2017, and Fig & Wally, a consulting outfit she co-founded in 2020. Her total professional experience spans approximately 16 years. No educational background is listed in the available source content.

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Steven Everett

Head of Global Market Development - Crypto & Digital Assets

Steven Everett is a Blockchain, Crypto and Digital Currencies Global BD Strategic Partnerships specialist at PayPal, a position he has held since July 2022. He works within PayPal's Blockchain, Crypto and Digital Currencies (BCDC) business unit, which is focused on more affordable, efficient and inclusive financial services and a vision of an open financial system. His work spans PYUSD, payments, tokenization, and agentics, with a focus on global business development and strategic partnerships.

Everett has maintained two separate tenures at PayPal. From March 2018 to May 2021, he held a Global Strategic Partnerships role focused on the commercial expansion and distribution of PayPal's branded wallets — PayPal and Venmo — and the Braintree platform across the cryptocurrency and bill pay markets. Between those two PayPal roles, he served as Head of Global Systems Integrators, Distributors and Resellers at Sift, an AI-powered fraud decisioning platform, from May 2021 to July 2022. Prior to his first PayPal tenure, he held roles at ACI Worldwide, including Head of Channel Partnerships for Healthcare, Insurance, Government and Utilities, where he led partner ecosystem development and established a new sales team and go-to-market program in the healthcare and property and casualty insurance markets. His stated focus across his career has been democratizing access to financial services, and he advises enterprise executives, boards of directors, and venture capitalists. Education from Northwestern University is noted in prior biographical material but is not confirmed in the retrieved source content.

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Subramaniam Vaithiyalingam

Director - Blockchain, Crypto, and Digital Currencies

Subramaniam Vaithiyalingam is Director – Blockchain, Crypto, and Digital Currencies at PayPal, based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, a position he has held since January 2024. His work sits at the intersection of FinTech, cryptocurrency, blockchain, and digital asset infrastructure. He has also served as an advisor to Wrights.ai and lists applied research, cloud, data pipeline and architecture, trading platforms, asset management, and financial services among his areas of focus.

Prior to joining PayPal, Vaithiyalingam served as Senior Director at Visa from January 2022 to January 2024, based in Bangalore. Before that, he spent six and a half years at Fidelity Investments as Director at the Fidelity Center of Applied Technologies in Chennai, from June 2015 to December 2021. Earlier roles include Technology Lead at Calsoft Labs India, an Alten Group company, from December 2012 to June 2015, and Assistant Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services from July 2011 to December 2012. His total professional experience spans approximately 19 years. No educational background is included in the available source content.

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Vamsi Krishna Juturu

Crypto & Xoom Product Analytics Lead

Vamsi Krishna Juturu is Crypto Xoom Product Analytics Lead at PayPal, a position he has held since June 2024. In this role he leads product analytics across PayPal's crypto and Xoom business lines. Prior to this, he served as Data Scientist in PayPal's crypto modeling team within the Research department from March 2022 to May 2024, and before that held roles at PayPal as Enterprise Business Manager and Finance Analyst, giving him a continuous tenure at the company dating back to April 2020.

Before joining PayPal, Juturu spent approximately seven years at LatentView Analytics in Chennai, progressing from Analyst to Analytics Consultant. His work there spanned client-facing analytics delivery across domains including supply chain, digital marketing, product innovation, HR analytics, and fintech, with responsibilities that included data visualization and business storytelling. His broader professional background covers data analytics, statistical modeling, business intelligence, social media analytics, and digital transformation, accumulated over a career of more than twelve years. He holds a degree from BITS Pilani Goa Campus.

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