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Wayne Pommen

Chief Revenue Officer, Affirm Holdings

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Recent appearances

  • How Affirm makes money on $49B of purchases a year | Wayne Pommen (CRO, Affirm)

    August 07, 2026 · 📺 Tank Talks by Ripple Ventures

    A big thanks to our sponsor, Moomoo Canada. This is the kind of tooling that's used to live on a Bloomberg terminal, but now it is on your phone, just a few taps away. They offer real-time data, full options chains, and an AI assistant that actually explains trading strategies. Moomoo is the perfect place for people who want to take their money seriously. Open an account today at moomoo.ca -- How does “Buy Now, Pay Later” actually make money, and why could it be a better alternative to traditional credit cards? In this episode of Tank Talks, host Matt Cohen sits down with Wayne Pommen, Ch…

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  • Canadian Fintech Exit to Affirm: Advice for Founders | TTW 2026

    June 05, 2026 · 📺 TechTO

    At the Market Overview: Fintech co-hosted with Affirm during Toronto Tech Week 2026, Wayne Pommen - Chief Revenue Officer at Affirm - sits down with Alex Norman (Partner, N49P & Co-Founder, TechTO) for a fireside on what 10 years of building in Canadian fintech actually taught him. Wayne built PayBright from 5 to 250 people - landing Apple, Hudson's Bay, Wayfair, Samsung, and Sephora as clients - before selling to Affirm in 2021. He now runs global revenue as CRO. He breaks down why Canadian founders are too cautious and it's costing them, what "we should have pushed harder, bigger, sooner"…

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  • The Business Model Behind Affirm - An Honest Credit Card Alternative

    June 04, 2026 · 📺 StartWell

    Wayne Pommen is the Chief Revenue Officer at Affirm, North America's leading buy now pay later company. Before that, he was the CEO and builder of PayBright — Canada's first BNPL company — which he grew from 6 employees to 200 before it was acquired by Affirm in 2021. Today Affirm serves 27 million active consumers and processes close to $50 billion a year in purchases across the US, Canada, and the UK. In this conversation at Startwell during Toronto Tech Week, Wayne breaks down how he stumbled into fintech through a healthcare financing company, why the Canadian banking market is structural…

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  • Affirm 2026 Investor Forum

    May 15, 2026 · 📺 Affirm Inc.

    During the 2026 Affirm Investor Forum, Affirm’s leadership team provided an update on the Company’s vision, commercial and product initiatives, and medium-term financial outlook. Executives also participated in live audience Q&A during the event to answer investor questions.

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  • Founder Journey ft. Wayne Pommen

    January 22, 2026 · 📺 TechTO

    In this special Toronto Tech Week edition of Founder Journey — powered by StartWell — Alex Norman and Alexandra Reilly of TechTO, sit down with Wayne Pommen, Chief Revenue Officer at Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM) and former President & CEO of PayBright, to unpack the real story behind building and scaling Canada’s first Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) company. Wayne takes us inside PayBright’s evolution from a five-person startup to nearly $1B in annual transaction volume, sharing the unfiltered realities of hyper-growth in fintech. From raising debt to fund a lending business, navigating operational and r…

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  • Inside the PayBright Story: From Startup to $340M Exit - Wayne Pommen

    January 16, 2025 · 📺 Challenger X Podcast with Jerome Dwight

    What does it take to disrupt Canada’s financial giants, create a new market, and lead a company to a $340 million acquisition? Meet Wayne Pommen, the mastermind behind PayBright, Canada’s first buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) company. In this episode of ChallengerX, Wayne shares the inside story of how he turned a small healthcare lending company into a game-changing e-commerce powerhouse. Discover how he navigated fierce competition, scaled at lightning speed, and ultimately sold PayBright to Affirm for $340 million. Here’s what we cover: 💡 How Wayne identified and capitalized on a gap in Cana…

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  • Credit cards are our biggest competition: Affirm Holdings

    April 10, 2024 · 📺 BNN Bloomberg

    Wayne Pommen, chief revenue officer of Affirm Holdings, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the Canadian consumer and their recent survey; finding more Canadians are spending despite a pessimistic outlook on the economy. Subscribe to BNN Bloomberg to watch more videos:    / bnnbloomberg   Connect with BNN Bloomberg: For the latest news visit: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca For a full video offering visit BNN Bloomberg: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/video BNN Bloomberg on Facebook:   / bnnbloomberg   BNN Bloomberg on Twitter:   / bnnbloomberg   BNN Bloomberg on Instagram:   / bnnbloomberg   BNN Blo…

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  • Gauging Opportunity & Success in Rebranding | Wayne Pommen

    October 12, 2021 · 📺 TechTO

    Wayne Pommen, SVP Canada (PayBright) at Affirm, Inc., discusses his career journey and discovering a need for a job change that ultimately led to the right opportunity. He discusses how he deciphered what the best choice/opportunity idea could be - through investing, remaining interested and passionate, building connections to eventually partnering and running a business. Pommen also discusses the desire to expand beyond health services and retail and how he managed to invoke real change. Revamping the company and going back to the drawing board and how that helped revise things, noting brigh…

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