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Juan Pablo Ortega and the Trouble With a Simple Payment
He learned the cost of fragmented payments while taking Rappi across nine countries. Now the pilot-turned-founder is trying to give global commerce one control panel - and teaching the software to fly more of the route itself.
Oded Zehavi Wants Expense Reports to Vanish
After three decades in payments, the Mesh co-founder is chasing an oddly radical outcome: business spending that explains itself before finance has to ask.
Ryan Bozarth Is Rebuilding the Plumbing Money Forgot
After helping shape products at Square, Airbnb, Anchorage and Coinbase Custody, Ryan Bozarth is turning stablecoins into quieter, faster infrastructure for global business money.
Leah Rasori
Leah Rasori learned marketing in her parents’ startup, then spent two decades turning dense fintech products into clearer stories. At Global Payments, her latest assignment is also her biggest: give a sprawling payments portfolio one voice.
Arnold Lee
Arnold Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Sphere Labs, the software company behind SpherePay, a cross-border stablecoin payments API, and SphereNet, a Solana-virtual-machine settlement ledger built for regulated fintechs. A Columbia computer science grad who first stumbled into Bitcoin in 2009 trying to buy video games, he spent his early career in embedded systems for IoT startups before incorporating Sphere a week after the FTX collapse, off the back of a global Stripe hackathon win and a stint in Jump Crypto's incubator. Sphere now moves billions in annual volume through corridors legacy banking forgot - Latin America, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia and the Middle East - on the thesis that every payments company eventually becomes a compliance company.
Francisco Mere
Francisco Meré is the founder and CEO of Blooms, a financial-technology company that gives Latin American fruit and vegetable exporters fast working capital, cross-border factoring, and multi-currency payments so their produce can reach North American shelves. A lawyer-turned-banker-turned-builder, he previously co-founded Bankaool, Mexico's first fully digital bank, ran the agricultural development bank FIRA, and chaired Mexico's fintech association. With Blooms he is chasing a multibillion-dollar financing gap that keeps growers cash-poor even as demand for fresh produce booms.
Hadi Solh
Hadi Solh is the Co-Founder of Flex, an AI-native finance super app for mid-market business owners, and Managing Partner at Atmos Ventures, a deep-technology venture capital firm. Drawing on 20+ years across Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and Credit Suisse, he co-built Flex from a construction-industry credit card into a $490M+ funded platform processing $3B+ in annualized payments, serving business owners who power 40% of US payroll. Based in Dubai, he also sits on the boards of Oxford Ionics (quantum computing) and Nethone (cybersecurity).