Profile
Myriam is a global payments and product executive with over 20 years of experience in card payments. She helps networks, banks, fintechs and platforms turn strategy into products that scale. As Global Head of Debit and Prepaid at Visa, she led a $5 trillion annual spend portfolio and a global team of product leaders.
She pairs commercial instinct with product discipline: building 0-to-1 platforms, defining product roadmaps and strategies, shaping partnerships and go-to-market models, and growing value-added services revenue. Her expertise spans B2B and consumer payments, embedded finance, virtual cards and small business. She is a strategist who argues with facts, not opinions , focuses on creating consensus to deliver impactful outcomes and shows sensitivity to local dynamics in order to optimize product launches.
Professional Background
Previously, Myriam was Global Head of Small Business Innovations and a leader in Visa’s Commercial Solutions team, where she launched the small business virtual card and multiple digital value-added services. She has worked extensively in the European market and brings an excellent command of open banking and payments regulation. She spoke at global forums on financial empowerment and access to credit.
Education
Myriam holds a Master’s degree in Marketing from Sciences Po Paris (France), a Business post-grad from Lancaster University (UK) and a BSc in Economics from Universite Dauphine-PSL (Paris). She recently completed an MIT Executive Certificate in AI for Digital Transformation (2026).
Furthermore
Myriam speaks fluently English, French and Spanish (and some German). She owns a family business with her husband, so she knows the merchant side of the counter firsthand.