Ulrike Guigui

Ulrike is a managing director in Deloitte Consulting where she leads engagements focused on helping the top US banks and payment companies address their pressing challenges in the areas of growth, operating model design and payment transformation.

Ulrike has more than 25 years of experience in leading transformative change across financial services organizations. She recently re-joined Deloitte after serving as the head of Enterprise Payment Strategy at Wells Fargo. There she led a team focused on leveraging the assets and leadership position of Wells Fargo to create platforms, partnerships, and strategies to shape the future of payments. Additionally, she represented the bank on key payment topics across industry bodies, including the Payco board of The Clearing House.

Ulrike’s work at Deloitte has included the design and build of a digital payments platform, the operating model design for a mobile wallet payments platform and the strategy definition and pursuit of a major real time payments build. She has also led the separation of a business line and the stand up of consulting business for a client.

Prior to joining Deloitte, Ulrike held leadership positions at Consumer Finance, Card, and Payments companies in Europe and in the US. She started her career at Citibank where she spent ten years and held leadership roles in the German and US Cards businesses. Subsequently she held leadership positions in GE Capital’s Consumer Finance business and at MasterCard.

She holds an MBA in Finance (Fulbright Scholar) as well as dual undergraduate degrees in Business Administration (BA (HONS) and Diplom Betriebswirtin.

Ulrike frequently publishes on payments topics and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, most recently at MoneyFest, Money 2020, Card Forum, and Women in Payments.