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Paulette
Rowe

Global Head, Payments
and Financial Services
Partnerships, Facebook

fter a sterling career in banking at Barclays, In 2017, Paulette added the successful completion of a
Paulette has taken her considerable payments and multi-year, multimillion-pound IT transformation to her
Afinancial services expertise to a new executive list of accomplishments. The first in the payments industry
role at Facebook. In 2018 Paulette was appointed as to pull off this complex build and customer migration, she
Facebook’s Global Head of Payments and Financial Services worked with some of the biggest names on the High Street
Partnerships, after five years as the head of Barclaycard – and online including John Lewis Partnership, Sainsbury’s,
Europe’s second largest payment processor. McDonald’s and Transport for London.
Paulette is already one of the most influential women Paulette stepped down from her position as Chair of the
in tech and her reputation is set to grow with Facebook Mayor’s Fund for London’s board of trustees in order to take
understood to be launching its own cryptocurrency. While on a new challenge as a non-executive director of FTSE 100
the task of developing the new currency does not sit directly Plc United Utilities.
within her remit, given her role, it is almost inconceivable Despite her intense workload, Paulette still finds time to
that she will not have some influence over the way things support a number of charitable initiatives. She has served
pan out as Facebook builds new commerce and payment on the board of the Prince’s Youth Business Trust in the West
propositions across its family of apps, including Instagram Midlands and worked as a trustee at Community Service
and WhatsApp. Volunteers.
During Paulette’s tenure at Barclays, the business closed Some of her many accolades include being listed on
the gap with market leader Worldpay in the UK, extended the Digital Banking Club’s Power 50 of most influential
into the United States and entered into new market segments, thought leaders from European financial services and being
including the successful acquisition of established fintech named one of Payments Source’s most influential women in
firm The Logic Group. payments.

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