Jareau Wadé

Jareau Wadé is an experienced professional in the payments and financial technology industry, currently serving as the Chief Growth Officer at Finix, a payments management platform.1

Career History

Jareau has an extensive background in the payments sector:

• Co-founder of Balanced, a pioneering payments API for online marketplaces, which he led for 4 years from 2011 to 2015.2
• Head of Growth for Tilt Pro at Tilt (later acquired by Airbnb) from May 2015 to April 2016.2
• Founder of Batch Processing, a venture he started in January 2023.2
• Senior Director of Payment Products at Arcadia since April 2023.2

Experience at Finix

At Finix, Jareau plays a crucial role in the company's growth strategy. Finix focuses on providing payment facilitation (payfac) services to platforms and vertically-focused software companies.1 The company processes billions of dollars in transaction volume annually, serving a wide range of clients from startups to publicly traded companies.1

Expertise

Jareau is known for his deep knowledge of the payments industry. He has shared insights on:

• The evolution of platform payments
• Finix's strategy in competing with established players like Stripe
• The future of online payment acceptance for merchants13

Background

Prior to his career in fintech, Jareau worked as a Product Manager for data acquisition at Milo.com and served as a Teaching Fellow at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Ghana.2

Jareau is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and his LinkedIn username is jkwade.2