Rohan Mahadevan — Senior Vice President of APAC at PayPal

Mr. Rohan Mahadevan serves as Chief Executive Officer at PayPal Pte. Ltd. Mr. Mahadevan also serves as Senior Vice President of APAC at PayPal, Inc. and PayPal Holdings, Inc. Mr. Mahadevan provides strategic direction for PayPal's fastest-growing regions covering many of the largest commerce markets in the world, including Australia, Greater China, Japan, India and Southeast Asia. He is responsible for increasing the PayPal's presence and local payment capabilities to capitalize on the explosive growth of e-commerce and m-commerce across all the markets in Asia Pacific. His deep knowledge of PayPal's products and capabilities drives the vision of enabling secure payments anytime, anywhere and any way for millions of APAC consumers. He joined PayPal in 2004 and held the dual roles of Vice President of Global Cross Border Trade and Vice President of Latin America. He was responsible for defining and executing PayPal's cross-border strategy to enable 123 million PayPal users to conveniently and safely purchase from international merchants in 190 markets. He led the strategy and localization of PayPal's services for domestic consumers and merchants and partners in Brazil and Mexico, opened up PayPal's first offices in these markets with Spanish and Portuguese language support, and accelerated cross-border trade across this region. He is a Co-founder of Aftermind Inc. and served as its Vice President of Business Development. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Aftermind Inc. Mr. Mahadevan oversaw Aftermind's strategy, business development and technology roadmap since its inception and is actively involved in sales and alliance formation. He served as Vice President of Asia at PayPal, Inc. He served as the first employee of PrivateOne (subsequently acquired by Xoom.com, NBCi), and was also involved in founding another venture backed start-up. Prior to his entrepreneurial experience, Mr. Mahadevan held a Prize Fellowship position at Cambridge University, and was an avid speaker at a number of international conferences. He holds a BS in Physics from Caltech, and a Ph.D in Astrophysics from Harvard University.