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Former PayPal product strategist brings deep fintech experience to guide next phase of growth and arm more consumers with a flexible payment solution to stay financially on trackNEW YORK, June 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Kasheesh, the first personalized payment product that lets you split purchases across your existing cards, today announced Chris Hartley has joined its executive leadership team as Chief Product and Operations Officer. Hartley will oversee Kasheesh's product strategy and daily operations, reporting directly to CEO Sam Miller.Hartley is a seasoned fintech operator, known for scaling high-impact financial products that deliver measurable customer and business value. Prior to Kasheesh, he spent more than a decade at PayPal, where he held a variety of leadership roles across product, marketing, commercial strategy and operations. During his tenure at PayPal, he helped pioneer debit card innovations, led proactive issuance strategies and launched integrated onboarding solutions that simplified the user experience and increased adoption."Chris has spent his career building products that help people move, manage and access money in more intelligent ways," said Sam Miller, Co-Founder and CEO at Kasheesh. "His deep experience and personal commitment to build solutions that foster financial well-being aligns perfectly with the ethos of Kasheesh. Chris' leadership will be critical as we scale and grow to help more consumers take control over their finances and avoid taking on new loans."Hartley's journey as a cancer survivor and advocate has informed a leadership style rooted in empathy, resilience and purpose."At Kasheesh, our mission is rooted in expanding financial access and empowering smarter spending—but behind that mission is breakthrough technology," said Chris Hartley, Chief Product and Operating Officer at Kasheesh

Kasheesh has launched a feature that lets consumers use its payment-splitting platform in physical stores.The new Mobile Wallet Dashboard allows users to generate a one-time-use Visa card at retailers that accept mobile payments, and to split purchases between debit, credit and prepaid cards, Kasheesh said in a Thursday (April 6) press release.“We couldn’t be more excited to get our groundbreaking technology in the actual hands of users when they need it most, shopping on the go, dealing with unexpected situations on the fly, and sharing their card number in physical locations,” Kasheesh Co-founder and CEO Sam Miller said in the release.PYMNTS research has found that mobile wallets are an increasingly viable alternative payment method at the point of sale (POS) and online and that consumers are increasingly interested in using them to manage their finances.Two in five consumers believe mobile wallets can replace all the items traditionally stored in physical wallets, according to “The Mobile Wallet Challenge: Replacing Physical With Digital,” a PYMNTS and ACI Worldwide collaboration.That’s especially true among younger consumers. The report found that 51% of Generation Z consumers said that their mobile wallet can replace most of the features of their physical wallet.Payment innovation is also seen as increasingly critical to retail stores.Having multiple digital payment options was seen by 89% of retail executives as necessary to customer retention and growth, according to “Navigating Big Retail’s Digital Shift,” another PYMNTS and ACI Worldwide collaboration.Kasheesh’s new mobile wallet feature joins the company’s platform that can already be used to split payment for online purchases, according to the press release.Whether used for in-store or online purchases, payment splitting allows shoppers to maximize rewards across cards, sustainably build credit scores and reduce the cost burden on each card, the release said.“With Kasheesh’s first in market mobile one-time use card, users can have the convenience of carrying their whole wallet of credit, debit and gift cards on the go, with the security of not bringing a single card with them,” Kasheesh Head of Product Pat Flahive said in the release. “This adds to the unparalleled flexibility that Kasheesh already offers with its proprietary payment-splitting technology.”