Amit Parikh

As executive vice president of banking platform services (BaaS), Amit has led the team responsible for delivering powerful embedded finance solutions for the company’s strategic partners since February 2021. Amit joined from Apple Inc. where he spent nearly six years in various leadership positions, most recently head of wallet services partnerships. In this role, he led a team responsible for transit, access and new initiatives. In addition, Amit served as the COO of Apple Payments Inc. from March 2019 to February 2021. From 2015 to 2017, he helped develop multiple features for Apple Pay, including Apple Cash, Student ID and Transit, and from 2017 until November 2019, led the team responsible for the Apple Cash business. Prior to joining Apple, Amit served as VP of business development at Discover Financial Services from 2014 to 2015, and as director of business development at Discover from 2010 to 2014. Amit holds a dual MBA from the Columbia School of Business in New York, NY and th