Jeff Sloan

In a 2024 a16zAndreessen HorowitzAndreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It invests from the seed stage through the growth stage and provides operational support to its portfolio companies.Open the full entry interview, Sloan recalled that his first career was as a corporate finance lawyer for about two and a half years, after which he moved into investment banking in the early 1990s.⁠[1]

From 1998 to 2010 Sloan spent about 12 years at Goldman Sachs, working in mergers, acquisitions and corporate finance; he became a partner and, in New York, worldwide head of the firm’s Financial Technology Group, helping to build its payments and fintech investment banking practice.⁠[2][3][4]

Sloan joined the NYSE-listed payments processor Global Payments Inc. in 2010, serving as president, also with the title of chief operating officer, from 2010 to 2013, and as chief executive officer from October 2013 to June 2023, while also sitting on the company’s board.⁠[2][1][3]

During his tenure he received CEO recognition from Institutional Investor and the Atlanta Business Chronicle and was inducted into the Georgia Fintech Hall of Fame.⁠[4]

In July 2013 Sloan joined the board of the corporate payments company Corpay (NYSE: CPAY), where he serves on the Executive and Acquisitions Committee and the Information Technology and Security Committee.⁠[3][2]

In May 2023 Global Payments announced that Sloan would step down as chief executive on June 1, 2023, and leave the board, to be succeeded by president and chief operating officer Cameron Bready. On that quarter’s earnings call, Sloan said the company was “back in an environment of normalcy,” and pointed to its recent transactions: the roughly $4 billion acquisition of Evo Payments completed in late March 2023 and the divestitures of the Netspend consumer business ($1 billion) and its gaming business ($415 million).⁠[5]

On April 30, 2024, “In the Vault,” the podcast series of Andreessen Horowitz’s fintech team, released “In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan,” which was uploaded the same day to the a16z YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is Google’s video-sharing and creator platform, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006. Built around video uploading, viewing, and creator earnings, the platform has developed Shorts, YouTube Music, Premium, YouTube TV, and products for children, and is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.Open the full entry channel as “Jeff Sloan (Global Payments): Placing Multiple Bets on ‘Mosaic of Solutions’.” a16z general partner Angela StrangeAngela StrangeAngela Strange is a Canadian venture capitalist and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), focused on AI applications, fintech and insurance. She proposed that “every company will be a fintech company.” Before joining a16z, she was a Google product manager who launched Chrome for Android and iOS.Open the full entry discussed with Sloan how he spotted industry trends early, the bets that shaped his company, and what AI means for financial services.⁠[1][6]

The conversation covered why he joined Global Payments, modernizing legacy technology, software as a differentiator, placing simultaneous bets in verticals such as sports and quick-service restaurants, diversified distribution, catching up during the COVID-19 pandemic, deal integration and scale economics, business-to-business payments and an investment lesson from the Brexit period. On distribution he said: “Hey, it's a mosaic of solutions.” On generative AI he said “it's gonna be an enormous sea change, not just for Global but really for a lot of our customers.”⁠[1]

In January 2025 Sloan joined the board of the insurance software company Guidewire Software, where he chairs the compensation committee; in June of that year he joined the board of Verifone, Inc.⁠[2]

On February 27, 2025, NCR Voyix (NYSE: VYX) announced Sloan’s appointment to its board of directors, effective March 3, 2025. In the announcement Sloan said he was excited to join at a pivotal time and to work with chief executive James G. Kelly and the management team on growth and shareholder value.⁠[7]

Sloan is an advisor at the venture and growth equity firm Oak HC/FTOak HC/FTOak HC/FT is a venture capital and growth equity firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, that focuses on healthcare and financial technology. It was spun out in 2014 by the healthcare and fintech team of the venture firm Oak Investment Partners and has invested in companies including VillageMD, Aspire Health, and CareBridge.Open the full entry.⁠[4]