George Eliopoulos

About George Eliopoulos

Growth-oriented business executive with a career-long record of building and leading high-performance enterprise, middle market, SMB, and channel teams that deliver top and bottom-line results. Broad fintech, SaaS, payments, and banking experience, with specialties in Artificial Intelligence, acquiring, global disbursements, B2B payments, fraud tools, omnichannel commerce, buy now/pay later solutions, and lending. History includes ground-up builds of sales and client management functions for growth companies (Lightspeed, Onbe & Braintree), leading sales organizations for public companies (Lightspeed, Zip & Pagaya) and growing new business units within larger organizations (Lightspeed, PayPal & JPMorgan). Currently with Lightspeed Commerce (NYSE: LSPD) as the Global Head of GTM, he leads the global payments function, responsible for increasing payments volume, penetration, and margins. Prior to joining Lightspeed, he was the Chief Commercial Officer for Zip (ASX: Zip.AX), responsible for growing the merchant business by adding new merchants, growing the existing client base, and building products that kept Zip at the forefront of omnichannel By-Now-Pay-Later payments. He led the sales, client success, sales engineering, product development and RevOps teams. Ahead of Zip, we was the Head of Sales for Pagaya (NASDAQ: PGY), where he was focused on building and scaling their enterprise sales capabilities. Responsibilities included market identification, segmentation, new client and channel partner acquisition, cross sales into exiting accounts, revenue operations, demand generation and new product GTM. Formerly the Chief Revenue Officer of Onbe, a Private Equity-backed company, responsibilities included new client and channel partner acquisition, client and channel partner management, revenue operations, and sales enablement. While reorganizing business development and client growth teams into a modern revenue organization, he steered Onbe towards new vertical expansion through direct and channel partner sales. This led Onbe into sustainable double-digit growth from both growing diverse new business channels and through maximizing the value of existing client relationships.Prior to joining Onbe, he built teams that delivered rapid growth at eCommerce and mobile payments leader PayPal, focused on Braintree, Venmo, PayPal checkout, in-store payment, QR code, fraud tool, and Buy Now/Pay Later solutions. Prior to PayPal, he held positions at JPMorgan spanning launching regional sales and relationship management teams to commercial underwriting.

Experience

1. Gm of Payments

   Lightspeed Commerce

   Oct 2025 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Leading the global adoption of payments within the Lightspeed merchant base. Responsible for GTM strategy, sales, strategic partner relationships, product innovation, pricing strategy, and product marketing.

Education

• DePaul University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Finance, General

  1997 — 2001

Skills

• Sales Rep Training
• Banking
• Sales Management
• Credit Analysis
• Portfolio Management
• Loans
• Crm
• Finance
• Commercial Lending
• Card Not Present
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Credit
• Commercial Banking
• Strategy
• Mobile Payments
• Credit Cards
• Underwriting
• Small Business Lending
• Analysis
• Sales