ConduitStablecoin Payments
Consultant · Product & GTM. Stablecoin-native cross-border payments — directly adjacent to the pAIgent thesis.
Leadership
Two Decades.
One Vision.
One Vision.
A partnership nearly two decades in the making — combining deep payments execution expertise with serial fintech infrastructure exits. Together, Andrey Lesko and Guido Schulz cover the full stack required to build a category-defining B2B fintech company: cross-border payments domain, product strategy, banking API monetization, fundraising, M&A, and agentic AI execution.
18
Years of
Partnership
Partnership
4
Combined
Exits
Exits
$500M+
Acquisition
Value
Value
$70M+
Net-New Revenue
Created
Created
$20B
Annual Processing
Volume
Volume
Working
Prototype
Prototype
Agentic B2B
Payment Layer
Payment Layer
Andrey Lesko
Co-Founder · Payments & Product Executive
18 years at the intersection of cross-border B2B payments, product strategy, and revenue operations — across publicly traded and PE-backed fintech firms at global scale. Deep operator network built at the forefront of global cross-border payments.
XE (EEFT)Public · Global
Global Head of RevOps. XE is one of the world's largest and most recognized cross-border FX platforms — 170+ countries, trusted by millions of businesses globally.
Corpay (CPAY)NYSE · $20B+ Mkt Cap
VP Sales Enablement. Corpay is one of the largest B2B cross-border payments companies in the world. Built the Sales Operations function from the ground up — market research, competitive intelligence, and enablement infrastructure.
AFEXPE-Backed
Product Director → Sales Development Director. Contributed to $500M exit. Created $70M in net-new revenue through real-time payment products, multicurrency wallets, and mass payment solutions.
Guido Schulz
Co-Founder · Serial CEO | 4 Exits | M&A & Infrastructure
Serial fintech executive with a career defined by building, monetizing, and exiting infrastructure businesses across payments, banking APIs, and payment security. Regular media contributor: Bloomberg, Fox Business, WSJ, PBS, Entrepreneur.
Necto → Embat2025 Exit
CEO. Raised $8M seed. Pivoted to premium banking API aggregator. Exited to Embat.
Bento → US Bank2022 · 60% IRR
CEO. Doubled enterprise value in 12 months. 60% IRR exit.
MerchantLink → Shift42019 Exit
Board-appointed M&A lead. JP Morgan Chase / First Data subsidiary.
Bluefin PaymentsP2PE · $20B Vol
CCO. Built $10M+ net-new revenue at 128% CAGR. $20B annual processing volume. P2PE encryption with 56 partners (Visa, TSYS, Sage).
AFEX$100M+ Scale
CSO. Evolved FX brokerage into $100M+ global payments company.
Current Venture
pAIgent
Andrey and Guido are building pAIgent — the autonomous execution layer for global B2B money movement. Working prototype developed. Early client and partner interest validated. Design documentation complete. The team is open to the right conversations.