Erika Wool leads the Global and Strategic Product Partnerships team at Stripe, a company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. These teams are responsible for the partnerships that power Stripe’s core payments platform, crypto business, identity and data aggregation products, applied ML and AI efforts, and merchant onboarding and lead Stripe’s strategic partnerships globally.

Erika also represents Stripe on the Board of Directors of the Electronic Transactions Association, the leading payments industry trade group. Prior to Stripe, Erika built and led the global partnerships team for Google’s Next Billion Users effort and previously led financial partnerships for Google Pay in Europe.

Before joining Google, Erika worked in management consulting and started her career as a research associate for the Council on Foreign Relations, an independent and nonpartisan foreign policy think tank.