Authors behind the words

Amazon Pay Team

Content Editors

Amazon Pay's team of content editors and writers.

Patrick Gauthier

VP

Patrick Gauthier is responsible for leading Amazon’s payment services for 3rd party merchants globally. Patrick is a 20-year veteran of the payments and ecommerce industry. Most recently he was General Manager, Emerging Retail Solutions at PayPal where he managed PayPal’s prepaid, gift and demand generation businesses.

Kelly Wenzel

Director, Global Marketing

Kelly Wenzel is responsible for brand and content strategy, product marketing, lead generation, channel and field marketing at Amazon Pay. A career B2B / SaaS marketing leader with more than 20 years’ experience across marketing disciplines, Kelly served as CMO for multiple high growth startups, including one of Fortune’s Top 10 Places to Work in America.

Giulio Montemagno

General Manager, Europe

Giulio Montemagno leads the strategic development and operations of Amazon Pay in Europe. With 18 years of management, operations and strategy experience, Giulio has a distinguished career as technology executive in commerce, payments and online media.

Kris Zanuldin

Head of Connected Commerce

Kris leads the Connected Commerce initiatives at Amazon Pay, responsible for developing and growing new Amazon and Alexa-powered commerce solutions for merchants and consumers. Kris’ career has spanned almost twenty years in digital, starting with the early days of New York’s Silicon Alley during Dotcom 1.0 to his role as the Director of Commerce Innovation at American Express prior to joining Amazon.

Kris Orlowski

Content Strategist, Global Marketing Communications

Kris drives brand awareness and preference through content marketing at Amazon Pay. Kris has over a decade of tech marketing experience developing messaging research, evidence programs, automation projects, rebrands and other marketing activities, with leading brands like Microsoft and Google.

Marina Gufeld

Program Manager, Go-to-Market

Marina is responsible for launching new features and enhancing the existing ones in the EU market. She started her career with Amazon 5 years ago. In her previous roles she was managing Amazon Pay's key accounts in Germany and was one of the first Program Managers for Amazon Pay’s Customer Excellent System (ACES) program.

Liz Greenway

Sr. Marketing Manager, Global Partnerships

Liz Greenway is responsible for building and managing global marketing programs that drive merchant acquisition opportunities through shopping cart solution providers. She is a seasoned marketer with more than 15 years of experience in consumer and channel marketing, working with companies like T-mobile and HTC to develop GTM plans and drive demand activities.

Dr. Daud Kamin

Solutions Architect

Dr. Daud Kamin collaborate with merchants to launch with Amazon Pay. He lives in Auburn, WA and is supported by his wife and two kids. He completed his Doctoral Degree at Walden University in 2017.

Ozge Erturk

Sr. Manager, Digital Marketing

Ozge leads paid digital marketing channels and is responsible for lead generation and customer acquisition strategy at Amazon Pay. Ozge has over 10 years of global marketing experience, specializing in customer acquisition and optimization of a brand’s marketing mix to drive revenue.

Sanjeev Sridharan

Senior Brand & Customer Insights Manager, Marketing

Sanjeev Sridharan is responsible for collaborating across teams and regions to drive branding, positioning, messaging, and insights at Amazon Pay. Sanjeev brings 10+ years of consulting experience from Frost & Sullivan, SAP, Kantar Millward Brown, and Optimal Strategix Group where he led projects across verticals to better understand customer needs to drive business decisions.

Leah Holzman

Head of Global Marketing Communications

Leah Holzman is responsible for branding, content, and communications at Amazon Pay. With nearly 20-years of experience in B-to-B technology marketing, Leah joined Amazon from Criteo, a global advertising technology company. Prior Leah held marketing leadership positions at Centro, Smartling, and DoubleClick (now Google).