About Andy Khawaja

In 2005, Southern California entrepreneur Andy Khawaja founded Allied Wallet. The now-global digital payment processing firm currently works with some 150 million customers, using more than 160 different currencies, in almost every country in the world. While trying to establish his company, however, Andy Khawaja, named TMT News’ 2018 CEO of the Year for California, met with widespread dismissal.

Industry insiders and commentators in the early 2000s routinely told Andy Khawaja that there would be no viable future in an e-commerce platform. Today, he has built up a small company to achieve a net worth of $18 billion, all while enhancing the ease and convenience of online merchant payment processing.

Andy Khawaja earned a doctorate in humane letters from Lebanese American University in Beirut. Fluent in English, Arabic, French, Spanish, and German, he has received multiple recognitions and awards for his business savvy and his philanthropy. Forbes and more than 100 other publications have profiled him and his company, noting their contributions to economic, technological, cybersecurity, and social service innovations.