Carmela Abraham
Co-Founder & CEO, Xiggit
Carmela Abraham is listed as Co-Founder & CEO, Xiggit. Carmela spoke at Money20/20 USA 2022 in October 2022 (speaker, “America's Got Access: Startup Competition”). Speaks mainly on Founders & Investment.
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- Topics: Founders & Investment
About
As the CEO and cofounder of Xiggit, Carmela is passionate about bringing financial, medical, and other benefits to the underserved 82 million hourly workers without benefits today. Carmela, a Registered Investment Advisor, also manages Xiggit Financial. With over 20 years in Fintech, previously Carmela brought deep payments experience to Visa, introducing merchants to network level card-tokenized security for online payments which became Visa Token Services used by Apple Pay and others. While at PayPal she launched Express Checkout, delivering what is now the normative online payments experience. She also expanded PayPal Profession Services globally, establishing PayPal throughout Europe, Southeast Asia, and LATAM. Carmela majored in international relations and physics at UC Davis which led to her early career with MathWorks, where she reduced product delivery costs by millions of dollars by transforming documentation from paper to digital. She then went on to Disney, delivering first