Akshay Chopra serves as Head of Innovation & Design for Visa for 90+ countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMEA). He leads teams of design thinkers, engineers, and digital commerce specialists based in Visa’s Innovation Center in Dubai and Visa’s Innovation Studio in Moscow. The Innovation & Design team co-creates new commerce experiences and products with banks, internet companies, FinTechs and merchants across the region. Akshay holds eight global patents in the FinTech and payments space, and has served in various digital leadership capacities in Asia-Pacific and EMEA. He has played a key role in the development of numerous commercially successful products in eCommerce and digital banking. A veteran digital and product development expert, Akshay and his teams have run over 200 co-creation sprints with diverse partners.Prior to his current role, Akshay was a founding member of Visa’s Asia-Pacific Innovation Center in Singapore, where he served as Senior Director and led client co-creations. Prior to Visa, Akshay co-founded and led the Deloitte Greenhouse in Southeast Asia, an award-winning joint initiative between the Singapore government and Deloitte, focused on analytics-driven innovation. Akshay holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business and BA (Honors) in Economics from the University of Delhi.