Pierre-Antoine Vacheron brings 30 years of extensive international and transformational experience as CEO and CFO within the banking, retail and payments industries. 

Pierre-Antoine joins Worldline from BPCE Payments, the payments arm of Groupe BPCE, Europe's fifth-largest retail bank, where he has served as CEO since 2018, making Payments a strategic business for the entire banking group.

Over his tenure, Pierre-Antoine Vacheron leveraged his focus on product innovation, technology and customer excellence to shape a highly competitive and modern payments player in card and account-to-account processing (BPCE Payments services), omnichannel commerce (Payplug) and bank as a service (Xpollens). 

Before BPCE, Pierre-Antoine Vacheron headed the Merchant Services and Acquiring division of Ingenico Group globally. During this period (2009-2017), he notably oversaw the company's diversification, contributing to transforming Ingenico, then hardware oriented, into a leading payment services provider, with the strategic acquisitions of Ogone and Global Collect. 

After graduating from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, Pierre-Antoine Vacheron held financial leadership roles in international and listed companies, across technological (Airbus, Alstom) and retail (Etam) industries, demonstrating his breadth of expertise in finance, operations and technology.

Since July 2025, Candice Dillon has been Worldline's Chief Technology Officer, with the aim of supporting the convergence of platforms and fostering innovation within the Group. She has taken direct responsibility for the Technology teams in the Merchant Services division. Candice has been Chief Information Officer at VodafoneZiggo since October 2020. Prior to that, she was Chief Information Officer at NN International and IT Change Director at Nationale-Nederlanden, where she managed strategic programmes and IT integration. She was also Delivery and Transformation Lead at a Dutch financial services company and Partner at Accenture for Financial Services in the Netherlands, where she oversaw banking consulting operations. She led transformation and integration projects for international banks and service companies. Candice holds a postgraduate diploma in Business Administration from Wits Business School and a BA Hons from the University of the Witwatersrand (The Republic of South Africa).

Since March 2024, Joe Katz has been Chief Risk Officer at Worldline aiming to create a risk and control framework and position that provides comfort to all stakeholders. Prior to joining Worldline, he was Chief Finance and Risk Officer at payments company Mollie BV. Previously, Joe held multiple commercial and risk functions at ING Group and ING Bank including global head of credit risk management and Chief Risk Officer of ING Netherlands. Joe holds a bachelor’s in finance and economics as well as a Master’s in Business Administration from Stern School of Business at New York University. 

From September 2025 Srikanth Seshadri is Chief Financial Officer at Worldline, bringing more than 25 years of international finance experience across operations finance, strategy and corporate finance in both turnaround and growth environments. A British national of Indian origin, he combines a global perspective with a disciplined, metrics-driven approach to financial performance. His background will be key to driving transformation & streamlining efforts at Worldline.

Since 2023, Srikanth served as Alstom Group Head of Treasury & Financing, playing a key role in deleveraging the company and stabilising its Investment Grade outlook in a turnaround.

From 2019 to 2023, he served as Divisional CFO for the Digital & Integrated Systems vertical, where he set performance metrics to drive growth, profitability and cash generation, including leading the post-merger integration of Bombardier Signalling into a common finance framework with product convergence. In 2014 he led Finance and then Strategy for Asia Pacific in Singapore before returning to Europe to head Group M&A. Since joining Alstom in 2002, he has worked across France, Switzerland, Singapore and the United Kingdom. He began his career at Arthur Andersen in India (1996–2001), focusing on statutory audits and technology risk consulting.

Srikanth holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree, is a Chartered Accountant, and has completed Executive Education at INSEAD.

Since 2022, Caroline Jéséquel is leading MTS Global Business Line which has been taking strong positions in 3 major pillars of growth: building and operating trusted services for all markets, developing our services on Transport and Mobility, and proposing to our customers our Contact Center as a Service Product for managing their omnichannel customers interactions. All these activities involve our Worldline products portfolio, from digital services to payments. Caroline holds a Master of Management from the French high business school Institut Supérieur du Commerce. She has been working in Consulting and IT services for more than 26 years. In 2014, she joined Worldline to develop MTS French business as Head of Sales, then as Chief Market Officer of MTS, a position she’s been leading successfully since 2020, managing MTS Sales development activities across France, the UK, Germany, Spain and Latam region. Before joining Worldline Caroline worked in Atos for 9 years and in Sema Group for 8 years.

From October 2025, Madalena Cascais Tomé serves as Head of Financial Services at Worldline. With extensive experience in payments and digital services across financial institutions, merchants, corporates, public entities, and consumers, as well as recognized leadership and strategic acumen, she brings invaluable expertise to guide Worldline’s Financial Services global division through its next strategic phase. Throughout her career, Madalena has demonstrated a strong commitment to innovation, impactful leadership, and the ability to navigate complex and rapidly evolving environments successfully.

Prior to joining Worldline, Madalena was Chief Executive Officer of SIBS Group, one of Europe’s leading interbank payment and digital services organizations, operating in over 20 markets. She led the company through a decade of significant innovation, transformation, and growth. Under her leadership, SIBS launched more than 65 innovative products and services, including MB WAY, the Eurozone’s first and most comprehensive instant payments solution, expanded into 15 new business lines, and set European benchmarks for performance, resilience, and security. 

Madalena also served as Chairperson of EMPSA (the European Mobile Payments Systems Association), representing 11 of Europe’s leading instant payment solutions, and as Co-Lead of EuroPA (the European Payments Alliance), driving major initiatives in interoperability and cross-border payments. In addition to her executive responsibilities, Madalena serves as a non-executive Board member, providing strategic guidance in areas such as innovation, artificial intelligence, digital transformation, and internationalization. 

Before joining SIBS, she held senior leadership roles at MEO / Portugal Telecom Group, where she oversaw B2C commercial strategy and operations, contributing to the company’s market leadership. Earlier in her career, she worked in strategic consulting at McKinsey & Company and specialized in AI and advanced data modeling as a Senior Consultant at Arthur Andersen/Deloitte. 

Madalena holds a degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Lisbon (Portugal), an International Directors Programme certification from INSEAD, and an LCOR certification from Harvard. 

Since September 2025, Anika Grant served as the Group's Chief People Officer, with the aim of supporting Worldline in developing the expertise, talents and capabilities necessary for the company's ongoing transformation. In 2021, for 3 years, Anika held the role of Chief People Officer at Ubisoft, leading the HR function during a period of significant change and modernisation. Previously, she held senior, global HR positions at Dyson, where she led an operating model transformation, and later at Uber, she helped drive significant leadership and culture change. Anika has held various Board Advisory roles since 2019 and has been advising large, multi-national companies on how to carry out major organizational transformations through strategic talent management.

She began her career as a consultant at Accenture before specialising in internal human resources functions for Europe and leading a Global Centre of Excellence dedicated to talent strategy. Anika held a degree in Business Information Technology from the University of New South Wales (Australia).

Since October 2025, Maëlle Lafont de Sentenac has been the Group Head of Transformation & Performance. She leads strategic initiatives aimed at making the company more agile, efficient, and aligned with its business priorities, as part of a deep transformation effort. Previously, starting in 2022, she held the role of Director of Strategy and Global Alliances at Worldline, where she defined the group’s strategic direction and managed key partnerships, with a strong focus on innovation and growth in the payments industry. Maëlle graduated from HEC Paris. She held two positions at Mastercard: as Head of Strategy for Western Europe, where she developed the strategic roadmap and executed essential initiatives in the evolving payment landscape, and earlier y as Senior Managing Consultant in Data and Services, delivering impactful projects for banks, merchants, and fintech. From 2011 to 2015, Maëlle was a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, focused on growth strategy, transformation, and operational efficiency for clients across various industries.

Since 2017, Charles-Henri de Taffin has been General Counsel, Head of Legal, Contract Management and Compliance. He received a Postgraduate Degree (DEA) in business law from the University of Paris X – Nanterre and a Postgraduate Degree (DESS) in litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution from the University of Paris II – Panthéon Assas. He spent 9 years as a business lawyer in the international law firm, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, international contract law but also on arbitration and dispute resolution. In 2013, Charles-Henri joined the Legal department of the Atos group and particularly contributed, as Head of Legal Special & Strategic Projects, to the main acquisitions, financing and capital markets transactions, including Worldline’s IPO. In 2016, he became Deputy General Counsel for Atos France.