Managing Director,  Southeast Asia, India and Korea, Paypal

Elias Ghanem is the General Manager of PayPal South East Asia, India and Korea, where he is responsible for the business performance and overall P&L for this growing and highly-diversified region. In this role, Elias leads a 25-strong, dynamic team that manages all aspects of the business including Sales, Marketing and Products. He is also in charge of cultivating new strategic partnerships, merchant acquisitions and product launches across the region. 

Previously, Elias was the Director and Head of Marketing for PayPal South East Asia, India and Korea, where he developed the company’s marketing strategy and implemented initiatives to acquire new customers through strategic tie-ups and engage existing users to buy more of their online purchases with PayPal. 

Prior to joining PayPal, Elias had worked in the cards payment industry with Visa International Service Association. In his last role, he was the Head of Visa Consulting for the Asia Pacific region, where he led a team of consultants and managed a variety of consulting assignments to the leading credit card issuing banks across the region. He also worked with Visa LAC (Latin America & Caribbean region), where he developed a Customer Life Cycle credit card management practice to assess sales, marketing and process gaps in card-issuing banks’ strategies and operations.

Elias has lived in Singapore and worked throughout the Asia Pacific region for the last four years. Having also worked across multiple regions including US, France, Argentina, Spain and Lebanon, he has acquired wide international business experience and fluency in French, English, Spanish, Arabic and Portuguese languages. 

Elias is a Business Science graduate of the “Institut de Preparation à l’Administration et la Gestion”, a Business School in Paris, France, with major in Finance, and received an MBA from the University of Miami, USA.

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