Matt Bethell

Founder, tessera

Matt Bethell is a payments strategist with ten years of experience governing payment infrastructure at scale. He founded tessera to give nonprofits access to the same calibre of independent payments analysis that large financial institutions and enterprise merchants have long relied on.

Most recently, Matt served as Director of Enterprise Payments at LVMH, where he oversaw $20B+ in annual card volume across the group’s North American portfolio. He led direct negotiations with Visa, Mastercard, and American Express that delivered $8.1M in annual cost reduction, and restructured incentive agreements to capture a 70% increase in cash-back revenue. Before LVMH, Matt spent four years at Auriemma Consulting Group, where he benchmarked payment economics across issuers, merchants, and networks — giving him a rare cross-industry view of where value is won and lost in the payments stack. He went on to advise global financial institutions and digital platforms at Accenture on payments modernisation, network strategy, and regulatory compliance, including co-authoring Australia’s Consumer Data Right submission. Earlier in his career, Matt led card-operations integration work at Capco following the Truist merger.

Matt also serves on the board of Brooklyn Federal Credit Union, where he applies the same payments lens to a mission-driven financial institution. tessera is the natural extension of that work — bringing institutional-grade payments expertise to the nonprofit sector for the first time.