Umesh Wadhwa
Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer at CSG Forte
Umesh Wadhwa is Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer at CSG Forte, where he leads the company’s global revenue strategy across Sales, Account Management, Partnerships, and Professional Services. He is responsible for driving growth, strengthening customer relationships, and bringing together teams, capabilities, and partners to create greater value for customers and the business.
With more than 25 years of experience across payments, technology, and high-growth industries, Umesh has built businesses, developed new markets, and led commercial organizations through periods of significant change. His career has spanned payments, healthcare, insurance, money movement, pharmaceuticals, digital assets, and telecommunications, giving him a broad perspective on how technology, payments, and partnerships can come together to create new opportunities and sustainable growth.
Prior to joining CSG Forte, Umesh was Senior Vice President, Global Partnerships and Segments at Mastercard, where he played a key role in building new businesses and shaping growth across emerging and strategic segments. His work included advancing account-to-account and cross-border payment opportunities, leading business development and go-to-market efforts across crypto and digital assets, and developing growth strategies across healthcare, insurance, and other emerging markets. He also built strategic partnerships and brought together teams, capabilities, and solutions to take new opportunities from strategy to market.
At CSG Forte, Umesh brings a growth-oriented, customer-first approach to the business. He believes sustainable growth comes from understanding customers deeply, seeing where the market is going, and bringing the right people, technology, and partnerships together to act on those opportunities.
His leadership philosophy is simple: set a clear direction, build great teams, stay close to customers, and execute with purpose.