Aaron recently joined Paypal to serve as EVP, Chief Enterprise Services Officer. Prior to that, Aaron was Chief Risk Officer at SoFi and expanded his role to include Global Operations and oversight of Latin America.  Aaron built integrated Risk Management to achieve readiness for launch of SoFi Bank, NA and SoFi’s Bank Holding Company, scaled Global Operations to enable mission-ready people + processes + technology, and established a presence in Latin America to enable modern payment infrastructure unlocking financial inclusion across seven markets and millions of payment cards.

Aaron has been pivotal in establishing SoFi’s firm wide risk management culture, risk appetite, and frameworks to enable responsible growth across every dimension of risk – including credit, fraud, financial, operational, enterprise, and cyber security risks.  Beyond risk, Aaron has focused on architecting Global Operations across SoFi Technologies and Galileo Financial Technologies to achieve global scale, operational controls, and industry-defining Member-experience centered journeys.

Prior to SoFi, Aaron spent much of his career in global financial services franchises – working across Latin America, Asia, Central Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.  Aaron served as Chief Risk Officer – U.S. Retail Bank and Mortgage and Head of Global Regulatory Analytics for Citibank, NA. As Managing Director, Americas Risk Management at Toyota Financial Services, the world’s largest automotive lender, Aaron built foundational global risk management and data science capabilities. Earlier in his career, he held positions of increasing responsibility at GE Capital (Prague, Bucharest, Dubai), Washington Mutual (Seattle), and Wachovia Bank, NA (Charlotte).

Aaron resides in picturesque Charleston, South Carolina and holds a BA in International Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.