Jareau Wadé, a payments nerd and coffee dad, is a seasoned business development and growth professional who has made a name for himself in the tech industry. He is the current Chief Growth Officer at Finix, a payments infrastructure company, where he leads the company's growth initiatives. Prior to joining Finix, Jareau was the Product Partnerships Business Development Lead and Commerce Business Development Manager at Pinterest. Besides Pinterest, he has also worked at Tilt and Milo.com, where he held executive positions in Growth and Data Acquisition. Jareau also co-founded Balanced, a payments technology company. He is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied Electrical Engineering. Additionally, he was a teaching fellow at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST).