Pieterjan Vandaele (pjan) leads financial partnerships at Circle, working with banks and other financial institutions around the world to broaden access to USDC, the leading regulated digital dollar stablecoin. His work at Circle places him at the forefront of stablecoin adoption across institutions and retail in all regions, bridging traditional banking with the new world of digital currency and open money.

Pjan has spent over a decade working on financial and payment infrastructure, with a large focus on APAC, previously in leadership roles in product and partnership at Stripe in Singapore, Paidy in Tokyo, as well as starting and running his own payments company in Japan.