About Guillaume Pousaz

Guillaume Pousaz believes that financial complexity is a barrier to innovation, blocking global economic prosperity. Having witnessed the growth of the internet since he was young, he founded Checkout.com in 2012 with a mission to build the banking that businesses deserve. Over the last decade, Guillaume Pousaz has worked with some of the world's most innovative companies to provide them with solutions to complex payment problems. Checkout.com is now one of the largest fintechs globally, with 18 offices spanning from San Francisco to Hong Kong and a team of 1,200+ people. Originally from Switzerland, he is a keen surfer and father to three awesome kids. In 2006, Pousaz joined payments company International Payments Consultants (IPC). He then co-founded NetMerchant, a US to Europe money transfer service, with IPC's head of sales. The company ran until 2009. In 2009, Pousaz purchased Mauritius-based SMS Pay for US$300,000 over a three-year period to build a next generation payments gateway. That same year, Pausaz founded Singapore-based Opus Payments which enabled businesses in Hong Kong to process payments from buyers around the world. Opus Payments rebranded and became Checkout.com in 2012. The company was founded to solve the problem of online payment processing for merchants and their customers. Guillaume Pousaz is the CEO of Checkout.com and owns an estimated two-thirds of the company. In 2019, Checkout.com first accepted outside capital in a $230 million funding round that valued the company at $2 billion. At the time, this was the largest Series A funding round ever for a European fintech company. In January 2021, Checkout.com raised a further US$450 million at a valuation of US$15 billion. As a result, Forbes estimated Pousaz's net worth to be US$9 billion. Following Checkout.com's 2022 fundraise of $1 billion, Pousaz's net worth was estimated to be US$20 billion. In the Sunday Times Rich List 2022 ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK he was placed 5th with an estimated net worth of £19.259 billion. In May 2021, Guillaume Pousaz established Zinial Growth, a global investment firm focused on the European technology sector. Investments have included e-commerce start-ups Ziina and Wayflyer, supply chain emissions monitoring platform Pledge, blockchain firm Snickerdoodle Labs, fintech startup Bloom Money, and others.