Ed is currently the Head of T&E Strategy and Global Expense with Barclays Bank based in New York, responsibilities include the execution of the expense & corporate card programs globally and oversees the travel program for the Americas region. He is a seasoned professional with over 25 years of experience in the travel and expense industry, with a deep specialization in payments, data science and agentic AI. For the past two decades, he has focused on delivering global expense and card payment solutions, streamlining international operations and optimize their T&E ecosystems. Experience in full sourcing life cycle, from demand analysis through RFP, contract negotiation, and supplier performance, while driving data-backed savings, traveler friction, and duty of care. Passionate industry manager who builds cross-functional collaborations with Finance, HR, Compliance, Security, Legal and Tax to translate analytics into policy and measurable results. He has built a self-service T&E reporting framework, integrated with Co-Pilot AI solution and implemented an AI Expense Audit solution — all part of his mission to build an efficient and enhanced traveler-experience focused program.