Patrick Pearson

Patrick is a fintech and payments veteran with 11+ years of experience spanning financial services star-tup in his first seven years and most recently in fintech and payments working for Mastercard. He currently leads Mastercard’s US Open Banking Channel Sales team where we received the 2022 CEO Award.

Starting his career in business development, Pat has since worked in varying roles including Corporate Development, M&A, Investor Relations, Account Management, and Sales. In his early years of in-house Corporate Development and M&A work Pat led various transactions totaling more than USD $400MM. At Mastercard, he’s received multiple Sales Exceptional Sales Performance Awards and has held multiple leadership roles, including one to lead a new Open Banking Partnerships team across North America.

Pat’s favorite accomplishment though is his family including his two daughters of 4 and 2 and behind that, his single-digit golf handicap.