Nurtekin Savas

Nurtekin Savas is the Head of Global Risk Infrastructure at PayPal, where he leads data, AI, agentic, and decisioning platforms that power consumer and merchant experiences across all global markets, products, and customer flows. With a career spanning over two decades, he has held senior leadership roles at Capital One, Fidelity, Amazon, Visa, and AOL, consistently working at the intersection of fintech, platforms, data, and AI. Trained as an engineer, Nurtekin holds graduate degrees in Machine Learning and Finance. He also serves as a technology advisor to several organizations, is a faculty member in Boston College, an open-source developer and the founder/operator of a nonprofit focused on solving human problems that matter with AI and technology.