Guillaume Pousaz
Guillaume Pousaz is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Checkout.com, a leading digital payments solution company. Under his leadership, Checkout.com has become a key player in digital payments, delivering high-performance payments solutions to thousands of enterprise merchants globally. Over the last decade, Pousaz has worked with some of the world's most innovative companies to provide them with solutions to complex payment problems. Checkout.com processes payments for numerous companies in the digital economy, supporting over 145 currencies and billions of transactions annually.
Guillaume Pousaz Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Academic History
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Bachelor's Degree, Economics
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Bachelors Degree, Mathematics
2000 - 2002
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CHECKOUT.COM
Guillaume founded Checkout.com in 2012 with a mission to simplify online payment processes for both merchants and their customers.
Under his leadership, Checkout.com has become one of the world’s leading global payments solutions providers and one of Europe’s most valuable private companies.
He has guided the company through significant growth, including a record-breaking $230 million funding round in 2019 and a valuation of $15 billion in 2021.
He has been featured in numerous financial media outlets and publications, including Forbes, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, and TechCrunch, among others.
EARLY CAREER
In 2006, Pousaz joined payments company International Payments Consultants (IPC). He then co-founded NetMerchant, a US to Europe money transfer service, with IPC's head of sales.
In 2009, he purchased Mauritius-based SMS Pay for US$300,000 over a three-year period to build a next generation payments gateway.
He also founded Singapore-based Opus Payments which enabled businesses in Hong Kong to process payments from buyers around the world.