Céline Dufétel

Céline Dufetel is the President and COO of Checkout.com, the leading global payments platform serving large-scale ecommerce and services merchants such as Netflix, GE HealthCare, Pizza Hut, Siemens, and Sony; fintech unicorns such as Klarna, Qonto, and WorldRemit; and many of the world’s largest crypto players. Céline oversees the company’s operational and go-to-market teams, as well as all financial, treasury, and strategy functions. Her remit as the COO extends to leading the company’s strategy on all matters involving operations, legal, risk, and regulation. She is also Checkout.com’s executive sponsor of Diversity, Equality, and Inclusivity (DEI). Prior to Checkout.com, Céline was the COO and CFO of Fortune 500 asset manager T. Rowe Price. Before that, she was Managing Director and Global Head of Marketing and Client Service at Neuberger Berman, and started her corporate career as a partner at McKinsey & Company. Céline was named to Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance in 2021, and to Fortune’s 40 under 40 in 2020. A native of France, Céline earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in applied mathematics and economics from École Polytechnique in Paris, and a master’s degree in finance from Princeton.