Maria Mileder
Global Head of Innovation, PayPal
Maria Mileder is the Global Head of Innovation at PayPal, responsible for furthering PayPal’s culture of Innovation by way of enabling, connecting, facilitating and promoting it with PayPal employees. Maria oversees global Innovation initiatives, PayPal’s Innovation Labs and Innovation Ambassador network across more than 11 locations. The Innovation network focuses on different approaches to problem solving for PayPal’s consumers, merchants as well as employees. Additionally, the labs offer an environment in which product development and ideation with emerging technologies is furthered. Prior to this role Maria completed PayPal’s 2 year Technology Leadership Program in San Jose (CA) and London (UK) and held several roles within the areas of Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance. Maria has an Msc in Economic Policy from Trinity College Dublin/Ireland and a Bsc from Karl Franzens University Graz/Austria.