Debbie Guerra is a seasoned payments industry executive with over three decades of experience spanning payments, fintech, consulting and IT services. She leads ACI Worldwide’s Merchant and Payments Intelligence solutions portfolio, which encompass e-commerce, omni-channel payments and merchant fraud. She has global business experience with merchant acquiring spanning direct and indirect channels, financial institution alliances, customer segments and verticals.

Prior to joining ACI, Debbie was a senior leader with First Data / Fiserv where she lead merchant acquiring businesses in the US and in Brazil.

Debbie’s 30+ year career encompasses roles with successive responsibility with companies such as Price Waterhouse and Unisys in the management consulting, IT services, IT outsourcing, human capital management and payments / fintech areas.

One of the early female graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Debbie began her professional career as an officer in the United States Army working in military intelligence.