Payments
Sales professionals in Payments
These ten professionals have held sales and business development roles at payments companies. A reader can learn how payment processing is sold to merchants and enterprises, and what drives a decision to move from one provider to another.
Professionals to explore
01—10Cédric Dupont
LinkedInExperience: Head of Sales · PaymentIQ
Head of Sales at PaymentIQ since 2026. Other listed roles at Worldline include Head of Global Sales - Payment Orchestration (2025–2026), Business Development Lead E-commerce - Payment Orchestration (2025), Senior Business Development Manager Payment Orchestration (2022–2025) and Business Development Manager - Acquiring Partners (2019–2022). The summary describes more than a decade of experience in the payments industry across direct sales, account management, business development and commercial leadership.
Christian Montesi
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Business Development · Paysafe
Vice President of Business Development at Paysafe since 2026. Other listed roles include Senior Vice President Corporate Partnerships at NationsBenefits (2024–2026), and Managing Director Enterprise Accounts (2018–2024), VP Business Development Retail Solutions (2013–2017) and Vice President Account Development - Prepaid Solutions (2003–2013) at FIS. His summary describes a business development executive in the payments industry with product experience in emerging and alternative payment strategies.
Cody Yanchak
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President of Sales- GTM · Payroc
Executive Vice President of Sales- GTM at Payroc since 2025. Other listed roles include Senior Payments Consultant- Worldpay for Platforms (2022–2025) and Team Leader- Partner Success Managers (2024–2025) at Worldpay, and Vice President- Commercial Card Solutions at JPMorganChase (2018–2022). His Payroc entry describes a payment platform solutions provider for online, in-person and mobile transactions.
Ethen Parvez
LinkedInExperience: National Corporate Sales Director · Worldpay
National Corporate Sales Director at Worldpay since 2026. Other listed roles include Senior Business Development Manager at Fiserv (2025–2026), Area Business Development Manager at CPM UK (2023–2025), Business Development Manager at DNA Payments (2021–2023) and Partner Development Manager at Dojo (2018–2020). His summary describes partnering with C-level leaders at Worldpay to design and deliver payment solutions, and his headline lists merchant acquiring and fintech.
Jean Khoury
LinkedInExperience: Director of Enterprise Sales · Paymob
Director of Enterprise Sales at Paymob since 2026. Other listed roles include Head of Softpos Sales - UAE (2025–2026) and Head of Partnerships (2024–2025) at qlub, Head of Sales at Spades (2021–2024) and Business Development Manager at Zomato (2017–2020). The Paymob entry describes a company that facilitates payments everywhere and lists the role in Sales at Director level.
Ken Haag
LinkedInExperience: SVP, Head of Direct Sales · Elavon
SVP, Head of Direct Sales at Elavon since 2025, and President of Payments Advisors, LLC since 2024. Other listed roles include Vice President of Sales (2016–2024), Division Sales Manager (2007–2016) and Territory Sales Manager (2006–2007) at Heartland. His headline describes people-first sales leadership, and his Elavon entry describes leading teams as Senior Vice President and Head of Direct Sales.
Lee Haspel
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Business Development · Mastercard
Vice President of Business Development at Mastercard since 2024, and former Director, Commercial Payment Solutions at Mastercard (2020–2024). Other listed roles include Director, Channel Partners & Specialized Markets at WEX (2018–2020) and Vice President, Commercial Payments at Capital One (2018). His summary describes leading a Mastercard team that drives adoption of corporate payment solutions across enterprises, issuers and fintech partners, including B2B co-brand partnerships.
Mark Amon
LinkedInExperience: Director of Direct Sales · Paysafe
Former Director of Direct Sales at Paysafe (2023–2025), and Director, Executive Partner there since 2025. Also listed are Director of Partner Sales Development at Paysafe (2022–2023), VP Sales Strategy Operations - Merchant Services at JPMorganChase (2016–2022) and Division Manager at Heartland (2015–2016). His headline references payment card processing, and his summary describes more than 22 years of industry experience in sales and strategy.
Maxime Colas
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Head of Sales UK I · Checkout.com
Senior Director, Head of Sales UK I at Checkout.com since 2026. Other listed Checkout.com roles include Head of Sales UK (2023–2026), Director, Sales (2022–2026), Senior Sales Manager (2020–2022) and Sales Manager (2017–2020). His summary describes a business development specialist with a strong background in online payments and e-commerce, from client acquisition to business strategy.
Richard Drury
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director - Head of Commercial Europe · Marqeta
Senior Director - Head of Commercial Europe at Marqeta since 2025. Other listed roles include VP Global Partnerships at Volt.io (2022–2025), Business Development Director of e-Commerce & Fraud at ACI Worldwide (2020–2022), and VP Head of Account Development - Key Clients (2019–2020) and VP Head of Corporate Account Development (2018–2019) at Barclaycard. His summary describes 13 years in payments specialising in sales, relationship management and partnerships.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's customer segment and product to your decision, since small-merchant acquiring, enterprise e-commerce, card issuing and commercial payments involve different buyers, pricing and sales cycles. Check whether their relevant role is current or past and which region it covered.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do merchants compare processing fees, contract terms and service when choosing a payment provider?
- 02What does a typical sales cycle look like for an enterprise payments deal, and who signs off?
- 03What usually causes a merchant to switch processors, and how do you handle the migration?
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