Carey Kolaja
Chief Product Officer | Emerging Technology & Customer Experience
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Carey Kolaja is the Chief Product Officer at Affirm, where she leads product strategy and innovation for the fintech platform. Kolaja has extensive experience scaling digital products, previously serving as the Global Chief Operating Officer at PayPal and Vice President of Global Consumer Products at Apple.
She is a respected voice on the future of financial technology, with her insights featured in The Wall Street Journal and Fast Company. Kolaja's keynotes offer audiences a unique perspective on designing seamless customer experiences and leveraging emerging technologies to drive business growth.
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A vision for truly secure and seamless transactions
Our feverish appreciation of the virtual economy is tempered only by our concerns about privacy. If it's so easy to spend money online ... how hard could it be to breach security? Carey Kolaja, the head of PayPal, describes the future of money and fraud protection -- going beyond passwords and PINs to consider personal behavior, physical markers and even everyday relationships.
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