Speakers

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  RAJA CHAKRAVORTI, Head of Business Operations and Strategy for Retail, North America, PayPal

  Raja Chakravorti is part of the PayPal retail leadership team changing the face of payments by leveraging mobile technology to create better, more engaging experiences between consumers and businesses. As Head of Business Operations and Strategy for the North America Retail team, Raja’s team is creating a world of Connected Commerce – where the concept of point of sale doesn’t have spatial or geographic limitations and interactions are no longer simply categorized as “buyer” or “seller.”

  While the payments industry is in the midst of an unprecedented technological shift, Raja's and PayPal’s “be the customer” philosophy helps drive development and delivery of experiences that create deeper, more secure engagement between businesses and their customers – of which payments is part of the connection.

  Prior to PayPal, Raja worked in the Structured Finance groups at both JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, specializing in government-backed loans. He has worked in an advisory capacity to both the FHA and GNMA to enhance capital market execution of their loans. He also designed and executed the first issuance of the GNMA reverse mortgage securitization on Wall Street.

  Raja holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan.