Pavan is Head of Product for Agentic Commerce and Stablecoins at Visa Acceptance, where he leads the development of next-generation commerce solutions for merchants, agents, ISVs, and acquirers. His current work focuses on building the infrastructure that enables AI agents to transact securely on behalf of consumers — spanning agentic tokenization, protocol interoperability, and merchant enablement for emerging AI-driven shopping channels.

Pavan has launched several flagship products at Visa, including Tap to Phone Cloud and the Visa Acceptance Platform — a global payments infrastructure operating in 180 countries and serving over 5 million merchants. Prior to Visa, he held product leadership roles at AWS and Cisco, with nearly two decades of experience spanning payments, cloud, and enterprise infrastructure.

He is a frequent speaker on the future of commerce and writes regularly on how AI agents will reshape the merchant and payments landscape.