Rakesh Krishnamuti

Rakesh has over 24 years of experience in the consumer and merchant payments industry, covering product development, sales, relationship management and business development. He is the Commercial Director for Southeast Asia at ZEN.COM, a complete payment processing solution that enables global business growth.

He was previously Mastercard’s VP of Business Development, Global Partnerships & Segments where he drove growth through strategic partnerships for crypto exchanges, healthcare, SaaS providers and more.

Before Mastercard, he held multiple leadership positions at Paypal including Director of Enterprise Sales for Southeast Asia and Country Manager for Singapore and Malaysia.

His leadership roles in financial services companies, payment processors and advertising agencies have given Rakesh diverse experience in consumer payment strategy and product management, e-commerce acquiring, B2B & B2C customer acquisition, regional proposition management, marketing and communications. In between corporate stints at Citibank, NETS and leading SEA payments provider 2C2P, Rakesh also co-founded and ran a regional marketing consultancy that served Visa, SingTel, MasterCard & United Overseas Bank.