Michele Simone Director of Partnerships, SEU and DACH, PayPal

Michele Simone, Director of Partnership, SEU and DACH at PayPal Michele is a Senior Commercial & Partnerships Director with over 20 years of international experience spanning PayPal, eBay, financial services and strategy consulting. Currently Director of Partnerships at PayPal for Southern Europe & DACH, he leads commercial Partnerships across 7 countries with accountability for over $30 billion in Total Payment Volume, managing a distributed team across 4 countries and driving multi-market growth through strategic partnerships, platform expansion and business development. At PayPal, Michele works closely with banks, PSPs, commerce platforms and orchestration providers, and serves as Partner Lead for PayPal's European Agentic Commerce Task Force — contributing to AI-driven commerce initiatives in collaboration with leading LLM platforms. Previously, he held senior commercial and strategy roles at eBay, led marketing and digital transformation at Agos (Crédit Agricole Group), and began his career in strategy consulting at L.E.K.