Melissa Pauléat serves as the Executive Vice President of People & Marketing for Montreal-based mobile contactless fintech firm, Mobeewave. She has nearly two decades of experience leading global marketing and communications for fast-paced, high growth technology and payments companies.

Prior to joining Mobeewave, Melissa held a number of senior management positions at Paysafe, a global payments leader, managing the company rebrand following its acquisition of Skrill Group, leading marketing for its Processing business, and overseeing B2B and B2C digital acquisition as VP of Marketing. Prior to Paysafe, Melissa worked for several NASDAQ-listed technology companies.

As of January 2020, Melissa oversees all Human Resource activities at Mobeewave in addition to Marketing in a role that allows Mobeewave to align its values and internal messaging to employees with its external positioning.

Melissa received a 40 Under 40 award from the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) in April 2019 and is an active Diversity and Inclusion advocate in the payments industry. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the Women Networking in Electronic Transactions (Wnet) association and founded the Wnet Chapter in Montreal. She was awarded the Wnet Making Waves award in November 2018 for her role in championing diversity and inclusion within the industry.