“When I talk about the ability for fintech to promote kind of economic growth and productive citizens coming in, using different data and being able to lend to small businesses, see those small businesses start to grow - of course, that means more money for their families, you know, the small-business owner families. They start to hire people.”

American business executive

Dan Schulman is an American business executive. He has led major companies in the payments and telecommunications sectors, including Verizon, PayPal, American Express, Sprint, and Virgin Mobile. He served as chief executive of Verizon, and previously was president and CEO of PayPal. Before that, he was group president of enterprise growth at American Express, where he helped steer the company toward mobile and online payment services, new partnerships, and revenue beyond its traditional card and travel businesses. Earlier in his career, he was president of Sprint's prepaid group and the founding CEO of Virgin Mobile.