E195 Maria Prados: The Future of Connected Commerce

The best strategy falls apart if people can’t buy the product or pay for the service or if there’s friction in the experience. We are seeing a lot of innovation in making sure creative and payments align in a multitude of verticals. Maria Prados is the Senior vice-president, go-to-market, global enterprise, Worldpay. Since 2013, she has led vertical growth, solution commercialization, enterprise partnerships and sales enablement for Worldpay—a global leader in payments technology that processes more than 50B transactions each year for more than 1M merchants across the world. As Worldpay’s senior vice-president for go-to-market, she is one of the top global experts on what the world’s biggest brands in every major industry need to best serve their customers at checkout. Previously Ms. Prados worked at Dixons Retail as part of the digital transformation team in charge of building the company’s successful e-commerce and omnichannel turnaround strategy. Her career began in financial services at Deloitte in Madrid. She earned an MBA from the IESE and Columbia business schools, after which she held roles in fields ranging from social venture capital to strategy consulting, building her passion for fintech along the way.