Kausik Rajgopal Strategy, Corporate Development & Partnerships
Kausik Rajgopal leads PayPal’s Strategy, Corporate Development & Partnerships. He
is responsible for the teams driving strategic planning, market research, M&A, Ventures and
minority
investments, payments markets and partnerships, and the Office of the CEO. Drawing on more than
20 years of
experience, Kausik brings extensive global experience in payments, technology, and banking to
his role on
PayPal’s Senior Leadership Team.
Kausik previously served as PayPal’s Executive Vice President of People and Sourcing, leading
the company’s
global human resources (HR), procurement, real estate, and payments markets and partnerships
(PM&P) teams.
Prior to this, he was a Senior Partner with McKinsey & Company, working with global
companies across
industries and sectors. Over the last decade, he held leadership roles of increasing seniority,
including
managing partner for the San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices and for the Western U.S.
region. Most
recently, he was the firm’s co-Managing Partner for the U.S. office, where he was responsible
for client
service across all industry sectors, as well as its people priorities. Kausik also helped
advance and scale
McKinsey’s Fintech efforts in his time with the firm, including co-founding the Digital Payments
Practice,
leading the firm’s global Payments Practice, and serving as McKinsey’s global Fintech co-lead.
In these roles,
Kausik worked with banks, merchants, technology, and payments players around the world on
strategic,
commercial, and operational initiatives. He also worked with central banks on payment system
innovation and
with private equity firms on buyouts and portfolio company transformations.
He is a board member and the chair of the Nominating & Governance Committee at Alight, Inc., a cloud-based provider of human capital and business solutions. Kausik previously served as Chair of the Board and Executive Committee for the Bay Area Council.
Kausik earned his MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar and served as Vice Chair of the Advisory Council. He holds a Bachelor of Arts and Science in Political Science and Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.