About

Prior to joining PayPal, Florence Louis-Joseph worked with numerous companies in the telecommunications industry including Global Tele Systems and Global Crossing (now Level 3) in France, the Netherlands and the UK. Louis-Joseph also has experience with AOL and B3G, the latter company appointing her as a member on the board of directors during her time there. Upon joining online payment service provider PayPal as senior legal counsel for Southern and Eastern Europe (including Benelux) in 2008, Louis-Joseph was quickly promoted to head of legal for the whole of Western Europe in 2010. Capable of communication in four European languages, she now heads a team of five based across the region providing legal support to Paypal’s business endeavours. Covering such a large area with limited resources has required Louis-Joseph to build a flexible team focused on risk aversion. Since PayPal’s spinoff from eBay earlier in 2015, she has focused on internalising the e-commerce skills of the team while balancing the complete change in strategy. Louis-Joseph has had to build and implement new initiatives after becoming more involved with partners to manage banking regulations in relation to e-currencies. On top of being deeply involved with the board of directors and a part of the management team, Louis-Joseph has also ensured that the legal function is central and crucial to the company where ‘everything goes through the legal team’.