Pahal Patangia

Pahal Patangia leads global business development for payments at NVIDIA. He focuses on building strategic partnerships within the payments industry and grow adoption of accelerated computing in the ecosystem. He drives payments-oriented engagements with NVIDIA’s hardware and software partners, cloud service providers, system integrators, venture capitalists and startups. Prior to that, he led developer relations for payments and fintech companies to help them accelerate their AI models at scale using NVIDIA’s platform. Previously, he spent the majority of his professional career at FICO, where he helped retail banks and financial institutions make smarter credit decisions using machine learning. He holds a master’s degree in business analytics from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Trichy in India.