Philip Fayer

Philip Fayer

Chair and Chief Executive Officer
As the payments industry continues to evolve, Nuvei is steadfast in delivering on its vision of being a people-first, technology-led global payments enablement platform.

Ultimately, our success is driven by enhancing the payments experience for our customers by allowing them to grow their business through our full stack of capabilities, both locally and globally.

Philip is the founder of Nuvei and serves as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. A seasoned entrepreneur, Philip has over 20 years of experience in the electronic payments industry. Philip founded Pivotal Payments (now Nuvei) in 2003. Under his leadership, the Company expanded both organically and through strategic acquisitions (the most high profile ones being SafeCharge in 2019 and Paya in 2023) and is now a B2C and B2B payment leader helping customers transact and connect with their customers all around the world in any currency. In 2020, Nuvei was named one of Deloitte Canada’s Best Managed Companies. In 2009, he was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40™ and in 2019, he was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year ® for Québec in the FinTech category. Philip attended Concordia University, in Montreal, Québec. Through a foundation with his wife, Philip devotes time for several charities, including with respect to youth unemployment and cancer research.

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