Patrick Gauthier, brings 20 years of experience in developing, selling and deploying new technologies in particular for payment and commerce, on a global basis, in private and public companies ranging from start-ups to international enterprises.

Patrick is veteran of Visa, where he lead a number of high profile product deployments such as Smart Visa and Visa Contactless/PayWave, as Senior Vice President, Emerging Products. As Senior Vice President, Innovation, Patrick was responsible for Visa International Innovation program driving new strategies and business models for mobile commerce, account holders identification and authentication, and payment data security. In addition Patrick managed Visa’s Corporate Venture and Alliances program investing in a number of companies that are shaping the evolution of the commerce and payment infrastructures.

Prior to Visa, Patrick held various Sales Management, Product Management and Engineering position at Schlumberger’s Electronic Transactions and Automated Test Equipment divisions.

A native of France, Patrick holds a Master of Telecommunications Engineering from Telecom SudParis, and lives in California. Patrick has served on a number of Board and Advisory positions with company’s such as mFormation, mTLD, Arcot, and Upek. Patrick is also an appointed member of France’s Conseil du Commerce Extérieur (Advisory group to the French Ministry of Commerce).