Adam Khalifa leads Google’s financial services partnerships in EMEA. He is responsible for driving Google’s relationships with large financial institutions in the region and overseeing Google’s relationship with the financial services industry.
Adam is an active angel investor who advises founders on building and scaling their go-to-market strategies, expanding internationally with a focus on EMEA, and hiring. He has strong domain knowledge in financial services and fintech in particular.
Adam has 15 years of experience at technology companies including Google, Stripe, and Wildfire where he has launched new regions, built go-to-market teams, and led strategic partnership groups. As one of Stripe’s early hires in EMEA, Adam helped build Stripe’s European go-to-market initiative. He also helped build Wildfire’s European footprint before Wildfire was acquired by Google in 2012. He previously started his own company in Tripoli, Libya.
Adam lives in central London with his wife and daughter. He enjoys running, golf and skiing.