Geetha Panchapakesan is the Founder and CEO of Tesser, a payments platform enabling banks, MSBs, and PSPs to make and receive stablecoin payments with simplicity and compliance at its core. A veteran of the cross-border payments space, Geetha began her career at MoneyGram, where she launched the company’s first global digital products. She went on to build commercial payments solutions at Fiserv, and later held senior leadership roles at Visa and Circle, where she oversaw the launch and global expansion of Visa Direct’s cross-border service and scaled USDC adoption across the payments ecosystem, including key markets in Latin America.