Pat Patel

Pat Patel

Chief Executive Officer – USA, LATAM, MEA & Co-CEO, Forums, Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)

Pat Patel is the business CEO driving GFTN’s growth in the USA, LATAM, Middle East and Africa and jointly leads on GFTN’s Forums around the world.
During his time at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) between 2019-2022, he led the spinout of Elevandi Ltd in 2021, the first iteration of GFTN, building the strategy, plan, team and securing the seed capital. At MAS he led the International FinTech Office, a team which was responsible for building relationships in different jurisdictions between the public and private sectors and driving both FinTech and investment growth. Pat serves on the board of Mojaloop, an open-source software project of the Mojaloop Foundation. It was created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Level One Project in 2017.
Prior to MAS, Pat led the growth and launch of Money20/20 into Europe in 2015 to become the most the successful and profitable FinTech event in the region and subsequently led the product launch into Singapore and China. In his early career he worked at VocaLink on the world’s first national retail real-time payments system, the UK Faster Payments Service, and built the international strategy for the product and drove opportunities across Asia and Europe.
A seasoned international leader with experience of building products, teams and launches into new markets and leveraging networks to drive positive outcomes.

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