Geetha Panchapakesan

Founder & CEO at Tesser

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Geetha Panchapakesan is the Founder & CEO of Tesser, a compliant payment orchestration platform for financial institutions to send and receive funds using stablecoins. A veteran of the cross-border space and digital money movement, Geetha began her career at MoneyGram, where she launched the company’s first digital remittance products. She later held senior leadership roles at Visa Direct for cross-border payments and at Circle, where she led business development with major payment companies to drive global scale for Circle stablecoins. Her background spanning legacy remittance, card networks, and stablecoin issuers gives her a unique view and operator’s perspective on modernizing payments and cross-border innovation.