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Paulette
Rowe

Global Head,
Payments and Financial
Services Partnerships,
Facebook

fter a sterling career in banking at Barclays, take on a new challenge as a non executive director of FTSE
Paulette has taken her considerable payments and 100 Plc United Utilities.
Afinancial services expertise to a new executive role Prior to joining Barclaycard, she was strategy director
at Facebook. Paulette was appointed as Facebook’s Global for NBNK, an AIM-listed financial investment company,
Head of Payments and Financial Services Partnerships managing director of NatWest Retail Banking at RBS and
this summer, after five years as the head of Barclaycard – Chief Executive of its European Consumer Finance. She also
Europe’s second largest payment processor. worked at General Electric’s financial services division, GE
During her tenure at Barclays, the business closed the Capital, in a variety of international markets including the
gap with market leader Worldpay in the UK, extended into US, France and Japan.
the United States and entered into new market segments, Despite her intense workload, Paulette still finds time to
including the successful acquisition of established fintech support a number of charitable initiatives. She has served
firm The Logic Group. on the board of the Prince’s Youth Business Trust in the West
Last year Paulette added the successful completion of a Midlands and worked as a trustee at Community Service
multi-year, multimillion-pound IT transformation to her Volunteers.
list of accomplishments. The first in the Payments industry Her many accolades include being listed on the Digital
to pull off this complex build and customer migration, she Banking Club’s Power 50 of most influential thought
worked with some of the biggest names on the high street leaders from European financial services and being named
and online including John Lewis Partnership, Sainsbury’s, one of Payments Source’s most influential women in
McDonald’s and Transport for London. payments.
Paulette recently stepped down from her position as Chair
of the Mayor’s Fund for London’s board of trustees in order to Find out more about this amazing Powerlistee, pg 76

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