Bio Details

Carleigh Jaques has served as a member of the Board of Directors since 2024. Carleigh brings extensive experience in financial technology, payments, risk and capital markets to Flywire’s Board of Directors. She previously led multiple strategic and operational teams over the span of a 15-year career at Visa, Inc. (NYSE: V), where she was most recently the SVP, Global Head of Risk & Identity Solutions. In this role, she accelerated the growth of Visa’s global fraud detection business, which supports financial institutions and merchants with capabilities to make real-time decisions and authenticate account holders across Visa, the world’s largest payment network, and other payment types. Prior to that, Ms. Jaques was SVP and Global Head of Acceptance Solutions at Visa, where she led the transformation of the company’s merchant and acquirer capabilities including Tap to Phone, urban mobility and merchant digital solutions. In her prior role as SVP and GM of Visa’s Cybersource business, Ms. Jaques led one of the world’s largest digital gateways, including its international expansion, sales model transformation and entry into new markets, such as face to face acceptance. Earlier in her tenure at Visa, Ms. Jaques founded the Corporate Development and Venture function and led a number of strategic investments through joint ventures and acquisitions, including Visa's $23 billion acquisition of Visa Europe. Prior to joining Visa, Ms. Jaques was a technology investment banker.

Ms. Jaques is an Advisory Board Member at the Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative and has previously been named among the Most Influential Women in Payments by PaymentsSource. She holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.