Vinay Prabhakar is Vice President, Product Marketing, with Volante Technologies. He is a subject matter expert in payments and transaction banking, with over two decades of experience helping leading fintechs and banks grow and thrive. Prior to joining Volante, Vinay was Head of Market Strategy for Payments at Finastra, where he represented the company’s global go-to-market strategy for payment solutions, and led the Solution Marketing team in the Americas across payments, retail banking, lending and capital markets. At D+H Corp (acquired by Finastra), he was Head of Product Marketing for global transaction banking. At Dovetail (now Fiserv), he was Vice President of Product Marketing, where he drove the company’s expansion into new geographies and market segments. Over the course of a decade at Bottomline Technologies, Vinay held positions in product management, solution consulting, and line-of-business leadership, including serving as Regional Manager for Bottomline’s Asia-Pacific division.

A sought-after speaker, he has frequently presented or served as a moderator at NACHA, BAFT, CEB/Gartner, McKinsey GCI, and many other industry events. As a writer and thought leader, he has authored articles and been quoted in publications as diverse as PaymentsSource, gomedici, BankInnovation and Tearsheet. Vinay’s current focus is payments innovation in all its forms, from real-time payments to open banking to distributed ledger technology.