Sal Karakaplan

Sal Karakaplan is Chief Strategy Officer at The Clearing House, responsible for working across the industry to enhance and execute TCH’s strategic vision to shape the payments landscape of the future. Sal’s responsibilities include market strategy and growth plans, strategic partnerships, and exploration, incubation and innovation.

Sal is a banking and payments executive with over 25 years of experience who joins The Clearing House from Truist Financial, where he was Executive Vice President for the Enterprise Payments Group, in charge of enterprise payments strategy. Prior to joining Truist, Sal was an Executive Director in Integrated Payments Strategy team and Corporate Development team at JP Morgan Chase. Earlier in his career he spent a decade at Mastercard holding various roles in corporate strategy, corporate development, M&A and digital payments product roles.

Sal holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Houston and an M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing from Penn State University.