Meet Our Experts

Learn more about the people who make it happen.

Abhishek Veeraghanta

CEO/Founder

Abhishek Veeraghanta is founder and CEO of Pidgin, an Atlanta-based fintech that empowers U.S. financial institutions to offer faster payments to their account holders.

Tim Rozanski is the Senior Vice President of Sales at Pidgin. In his current role at Pidgin, Tim oversees our direct and partnership sales presence as the team consults financial institutions of all sizes on their faster payment strategies.

Kevin Olsen

SVP Innovation & Strategy

Kevin Olsen is the Payments Professor bringing enthusiasm and motivation to presentations. Kevin is also a certified business coach helping lead organizations to innovate and communicate in the ever-changing world of payments.

Angela Murphy

VP of Marketing and Solutions

Angela Murphy, Ph.D., also known as Payments Elsa, is a thought leader in faster payments, artificial intelligence, and innovation strategy. She currently works at the intersection of strategy and insight in the payments industry.

Vidya Pothumahanty

VP of Customer Success

Vidya Pothumahanty is our Head of Customer Success, leading key teams including FedNow & RTP Onboarding, Release Management, and Support. With a strong focus on delivering exceptional client experiences and operational excellence, Vidya plays a critical role in driving success across real-time payments and service delivery initiatives.

Ed Paciolla

VP of Product

Ed Paciolla brings over two decades of experience in the electronic payments industry to his role as Head of Product at Pidgin. With a deep understanding of payment ecosystems and a proven track record of innovation, Ed has successfully built and transformed payment platforms across a wide range of services, including credit cards, debit cards, ACH, prepaid, and most recently, instant payments.

Pidgin's Story

Learn a little about our history.

Pidgin is an innovative payments platform designed to provide financial institutions with secure and efficient transactions. Our main objective is to ensure financial institutions have smarter, faster, and safer payments. Pidgin translates the language of faster payments for everyone to achieve a best-in-class experience. Pidgin was developed and rolled out our pilot clients in 2019 under our parent company VSoft Corporation.

In 2022, Pidgin was spun off as we ramped up for the launch of the FedNow Service. Pidgin distinguishes itself by ensuring that transactions remain within financial institutions, other than external providers allowing for faster and safer transactions. Pidgin has 35 employees globally. We are based in Atlanta, GA, and have team members across the US and India led by our CEO Abhishek Veeraghanta.

Pidgin was founded to make instant and real time payments possible for financial institutions and their correspondents to connect as many end-users live as possible and achieve true network effects for faster payments. In addition to being a FedNow Service early adopter and service provider, we’ve built out a strong onboarding process for faster payments channels including The Clearing House’s RTP Network, allowing FIs to get running quickly, efficiently.