Sean Hesh

Sean is a high calibre senior executive with an in-depth experience in Payments, Merchant Acquiring, E-commerce, Operations and Technology in the Asia Pacific ("APAC") Region and the United States. He has demonstrated a solid ability to build and grow businesses and to improve efficiency, productivity, profitability and delivery of strategic initiatives, in a number of very complex and highly regulated jurisdictions.

With over 30 years of experience, Sean commenced his long and distinguished career in the Payments & Financial Services industry with Wells Fargo Bank in 1989. He worked at First Data Corporation (now Fiserv) from 1993 to 2010 and held a variety of senior management positions with First Data, including: Vice President & General Manager of Financial Institution Alliances; Chief Operating Office at TASQ Technology; Chief Operating Officer of Card Service International and Chief Executive Officer of Wells Fargo Merchant Services LLC. From 2006 to 2010, Sean served as the CEO of Merchant Solution Pte. Ltd., a joint venture between First Data and Standard Chartered Bank in APAC. He then joined Citibank in 2010 as the Regional Head of Merchant Acquiring, Network Management and Commercial Cards.

In this capacity, he was responsible for the strategy, business & product management, contract negotiations and best practices across Citi"s Merchant Acquiring and Commercial Cards businesses as well as for the relationships with the Payment Networks across Citi"s footprint in 16 APAC, Europe, and the Middle East markets. He has been the Executive Director and Group CEO of NTT DATA Payment Services since November 2020. Sean is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelors in Political Science and a Masters of Arts degree in International Relations from San Francisco State University.