Damien Cramer | Senior Vice President – Global Travel
Nuvei

Damien leads the Airlines and Travel Vertical for Nuvei. His team are focused on supporting global travel businesses increase their market coverage, improve their customers payment experience and ultimately help them grow in a sustainable and effective way. Damien has more than 25 years experience in leading payments and transaction services teams across all segments of the market, with particular focus on Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Nuvei he led a global travel team for another payment service provider and lead the transactional business for one of Australia’s largest banks. He has also had experience in fintech and leading payment services for a large merchant.

Appearances:

WAF Day 1 @ 13:50

Panel: Payment orchestration at scale – managing cost, approval and performance

Orchestration platforms are expanding beyond payments into loyalty and wider fintech infrastructure. Are airlines gaining flexibility – or introducing new platform dependencies?
How are airlines balancing cost, approval rates, fraud signals and settlement timing when routing payments?
Approval optimisation: domestic acquiring, network tokens, SCA strategies and retries – what’s actually moving the needle?
When disruption hits, where do payment systems still break down across booking, servicing and refund flows?
Should airlines build orchestration internally or rely on external platforms – and what trade-offs exist between speed, control and complexity?

Maris Zilgalvis, Head of Payments and Distribution, Air Baltic

Keli Sandeman, Payment Strategy Manager, Virgin Atlantic Airways

Peter Keenan, Co-Founder & CEO, APEXX Global