GM Financial Innovations, PayPal

Dan Schatt heads Financial Innovations for PayPal. In this role, he is responsible for defining the business and product strategy for PayPal’s initiatives with financial partners.

Prior to PayPal, Dan was an industry analyst with Celent, and led the company’s retail payments practice. Prior to his role as industry analyst, he served as GM of Yodlee’s data services group, responsible for integrations with top tier financial institutions. Prior to Yodlee, Dan worked as an investment banker for Salomon Smith Barney and held positions in Asia, Europe, and Africa with Citigroup.

Dan has been widely quoted in the media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Business Week, and has also written articles for American Banker and Bank Systems & Technology. He has presented at national and international venues, including the United Nations Development Program Roundtable on Remittances, the World Bank / APEC Dialogue on Remittance Systems, NACHA’s Annual Payments Conference, BAI’s TransPay conference, and The Internet Retailer conference. Dan received a dual MBA (Finance) and MIA (International Economic Policy) from Columbia University and his BA from the University of California. He is fluent in Romanian.