David Hirsch

David has spent nearly 25 years leading business and corporate development across consuemr and SME fintech (payments, lending, commerce and insurtech) in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. His work has consistently bent the curve on growth and profitability, across start-ups, scale-ups, scaled FS and big tech. Most recently, David led Amazon's partnerships, strategy and M&A for fintech and retail technology (e.g. Just Walk Out, biometric payments, agentic and headless commerce) within its Business and Corporate Development unit, which reports to CEO Andy Jassy. He also sat on Amazon's payments leadership team. He and his team led multi-billion-dollar negotiations with payment networks, scaled fintechs and financial institutions for Amazon's consumer, SME and enterprise customers across Retail, Cloud and B2B. They also drove deals which launched and scaled novel payments offerings like Buy with Prime and Amazon Seller Wallet, enabling agentic and off-site commece models. Prior to Amazon, David was GM of OODAPay at OODA Health (backed by Oak HC/FT, exited to Cedar), VP and Head of Corporate and Business Development at Klarna, and held roles at American Express and McKinsey & Company. He was also a Non-Executive Director of Tabby, the Middle East buy-now-pay-later unicorn, from founding through to Series B. His advisory practice Fintech Forward, advises corporates, founders and investors on fintech strategy and deal-making. He is also an adviser and LP in venture funds including Nyca Partners and Canaan Partners, and is an active angel investor in fintech. David holds bachelor's and MBA degrees from Harvard. He lives in London.