Building at enterprise scale
Leading global functions, significant budgets, technology programs and cross-functional transformation in highly regulated environments.
About
The operator, the thinker and the leader.
A career built at the intersection of global payments, financial crime risk, technology transformation and organizational scale.
Executive profile
Micheal Sheehy
Micheal is a global compliance executive with more than two decades of experience across payments, banking and technology. He has led complex, multi-jurisdictional compliance organizations through growth, regulatory change and large-scale modernization.
His work focuses on translating regulatory expectations into scalable operating models: modernizing customer and transaction controls, building international teams, strengthening model governance and creating the infrastructure that allows businesses to grow with confidence.
His current writing explores a broader idea: that compliance must evolve from a collection of static controls into an adaptive intelligence system capable of learning as quickly as risk changes.
Global paymentsAML & sanctionsAI governanceOrganizational designBoard engagement
Three dimensions
More than a résumé.
The site is designed around the parts of executive experience that matter most.
Developing an original point of view
Writing about adaptive compliance, continuous governance and the practical consequences of AI for financial institutions.
Creating capability through people
Developing leadership teams, making difficult decisions with incomplete information and building organizations that can operate without becoming dependent on one executive.
Experience
Global compliance leadership at scale.
A concise overview. A full résumé is available for relevant executive, board and advisory conversations.
Chief Compliance Officer · Payoneer
Executive oversight of a 400+ person global compliance organization spanning AML, sanctions, KYC, transaction monitoring, financial intelligence, model governance, regulatory engagement, technology and operations.
Deputy Chief Compliance Officer · Payoneer
Leadership across program expansion, operating-model redesign, technology transformation and the scaling of regional compliance capabilities.
Payments, banking and technology
Before Payoneer, Micheal served as Chief Compliance Officer at Sigue and Head of EU Payment Compliance at Microsoft. His earlier financial-services experience includes JPMorgan, Citi and Sterling National Bank.
Business and law
BA (Hons), Business Studies with Law, Dublin City University.
Board & advisory
Governance beyond the executive role.
Selected appointments supported by public company and regulatory sources.
Payoneer Payment (Guangdong) Co., Ltd.
Director of Payoneer’s licensed payment entity in China, formerly Easylink Payment and now operating as 派安盈支付（广东）有限公司.
View the regulatory-change report →PAYO Digital Bank, N.A.
Named as a proposed director and organizer in the public application to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for Payoneer’s proposed national trust bank.
View the OCC filing →Lucinity Advisory Council
Advises the financial-crime technology company on compliance operations, payments risk and the responsible application of artificial intelligence.
View the appointment announcement →