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About Carey OConnor Kolaja
https://www.versapay.com/
Carey OConnor Kolaja is a fearless finance and payments entrepreneur and operator, a resident problem solver, and an industry disruptor. She is on a mission to create a more inclusive, trusted, and efficient world by redefining how businesses and communities adopt technology to thrive.
For decades, she has explored the intersection of payments, identity, and adaptive technologies with great curiosity. She has challenged the status quo and humanized payments in global roles at both PayPal and Citi
She frequently contributes articles and engages with the media, sharing her vision of the future of finance and payments and the global imperative of protecting identities. She has delivered a TED Talk on the future of money and fraud, given keynote speeches at conferences worldwide, and received several spectacular recognitions in fintech. Her intention is to ensure that each of these experiences and moments contributes to the creation of a more prosperous, trusted world, one powered by technology, opportunity, and purpose.
Her specialties include financial services, identity management, product management, product development, emerging technology, system and management design, business strategies for growth and scale-up companies, cybersecurity, and money movement.
As CEO, Carey OConnor Kolaja is responsible for the day-to-day operations and strategic direction of Versapay. Throughout her career, Carey has been known as an innovator, disrupter, and operator who can drive from start-up to scale-up. She brings over 25 years of executive leadership experience in the financial services and payments industry. Prior to her role as CEO at Versapay, she was the chief executive officer of AU10TIX, the global leader in automated identity intelligence and cyber fraud prevention. She has also held positions at Citi Fintech as the global chief product officer and PayPal as the vice president of global consumer products. Carey holds a B.S. from Indiana University and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.