Renier Lemmens
Renier Lemmens is vice president and general manager of PayPal Europe. In this role, he is responsible for establishing PayPal as the leading online payment service across the region.
Lemmens brings more than 20 years experience in financial services and technology to his role as head of PayPal Europe. Most recently, he was chief executive officer of ZBG Group/ Amodo Consumer Finance, where he led a portfolio of consumer finance and insurance businesses in the Benelux region.
Prior to that, Lemmens served as chief operating officer of the international retail and commercial banking division at Barclays Bank PLC, covering all functional areas across 23 markets globally. He has held senior executive positions with consumer finance and consulting firms such as GE Capital Corporation, McKinsey & Company and Arthur D. Little. A native of The Netherlands, he has extensive international business experience having worked in the Benelux region, France, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, Hungary, India and North America.
Lemmens serves as non-executive director on the board of Zenith Bank UK, where he also chairs the audit committee.
He received a master’s degree in information technology from Technische Universiteit Delft and an MBA with distinction from INSEAD, France. He is married with three kids and lives in Luxembourg weekdays and London on weekends.
