Uzma Makhdumi is currently Head of Payments Partnerships at Google where she has helped take Google Pay international and now leads new business development initiatives for consumer payments globally working with banks, payment networks and fin tech companies. Prior to Google, Uzma was leading commercialization for Visa Digital and was also one of the early Product Managers for Mobile at Yahoo! where she managed their first revenue generating mobile product. She has also been a consultant at McKinsey advising high tech companies in the areas of strategy, growth and acquisition, and was an engineer at Bose Corporation working directly for the founder/CEO, Dr. Amar Bose. She double-majored in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and Management Science from MIT and holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Her career has taken her to numerous countries, cultures and companies, throughout which digital growth and transformation was the key theme. Annelies was CEO of Findmypast.com till September 2016 and from 2008 till 20113 she was CEO of SUP.com, Russia’s leading digital publisher Annelies came to SUP from ITV, the UK’s #1 commercial broadcaster, where she was Managing Director of ITV Broadband. At ITV she oversaw the launch of ITV.com in May 2007.

From 2000-2005 Annelies worked for News International as Director of Digital in charge of The Times online sites, followed by a position as director of New Media for The Telegraph group. Her previous roles before joining News International have included publisher of The Moscow Times, St Petersburg Times, Russia Business Review. Before joining the media industry she worked for Johnson and Johnson in Russia, managing two of their medical devices businesses (Livescan and Cordis).

Robin Leidenthal is a leader in the payments industry with over 20 years of banking and financial technology experience. Robin has led large, dispersed teams of payment and compliance policy, operations, sales and service professionals. Robin has global expansion experience, having managed large international teams and building global partner relationships in the EU and UK. Robin's diverse experience from large banks to early, disruptive payments start-ups and established fintech companies such as PayPal and Intuit, provide for a unique approach to enabling new and traditional acceptance models. Robin is presently the Head of US Acquirer Processor Sales for Visa, managing a team of Senior Account Executives responsible for business development and relationship engagement. Robin has served as a Board Advisor to the Merchant Acquirer Committee (MAC), various ETA Committees and is a member of Visa’s Women’s Network (VWN), Watermark and Wnet.org.