Suresh Vaghjiani is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Tribe Payments Ltd, the first certified card payments platform in Europe offering Visa, Mastercard and Union Pay International. Suresh is a highly experienced executive with a proven track record of leading rapid growth companies. Bringing a wealth of knowledge in global payments with prior roles as CEO of Tribe Payments, President of Global Processing Services, as well as FTSE companies such as Paysafe Group and Kalixa Payments Group, Suresh has represented the Fintech sector and the UK Government on a number of trade missions to Mexico, Canada and China. He was also involved in a historic delegation with the Rt. Hon. Lord Mayor of London to the southern hemisphere. In addition, Suresh was selected to join the working group for the Payment Strategy Forum which will help shape changes in the payments industry that the FCA will make through the Payment Systems Regulator.

He has a substantial understanding of the financial industry, throughout its complete value chain, having worked with the likes of Revolut, Starling, Monzo, Curve and many more from inception. In 2018 Suresh was voted #1 in the Payments Power 10, an annual top ten list of key influencers in the payments industry voted by the industry. In 2017 Suresh became the first non-American in its 11-year history to be awarded the prestigious Industry achievement award by PAY magazine.