Christabel Oderele

Christabel Oderele is the PCI Lead at Checkout.com, a passionate security and compliance leader who owns all PCI programmes across one of Europe's biggest fintechs. In just a year in the role, she has taken PCI audits from end to end and driven the implementation of new standards as the programmes evolve. She has a gift for translating dense regulatory requirements into clear, actionable steps, and a deep understanding of the payments space that lets her build compliance systems that are genuinely pragmatic, effective and efficient rather than just process for its own sake. As AI reshapes the payments landscape, her growing expertise in AI security and governance is helping Checkout.com build compliance approaches that hold up as agentic and AI-driven systems become part of the cardholder data environment, keeping her programmes ready for what payments security looks like next.