Sebastian J. Gunningham
Chief Executive Officer
2026 – Present
0 years (current)
Key Decisions & Impact
Gunningham became CEO on February 19, 2026, succeeding co-founder Matt Oppenheimer, after a career built primarily at Amazon, where he spent over a decade as a senior vice president on the executive S-team leading marketplace, payments, search, and fulfillment businesses. He most recently chaired Santander Consumer Finance and served as vice chairman of Openbank, and earlier held senior roles at Oracle and Apple, was CEO of Material Bank, and briefly co-CEO of WeWork.
Legacy
Gunningham inherited a company that had just turned its first full year of GAAP profit ($67.9 million net income on $1.635 billion revenue in 2025), and his mandate is to scale Remitly's next phase of cross-border financial-services growth, drawing on marketplace and payments experience from Amazon rather than remittances specifically, since this is his first role dedicated to the category. His background running Amazon's third-party marketplace business gave him experience scaling a complex, trust-dependent, two-sided platform, skills the board viewed as transferable to Remitly's own network of sending and receiving corridors that must maintain reliability across dozens of currencies and regulatory regimes. Beyond Amazon, his roles chairing Santander Consumer Finance and serving as Vice Chair and Co-CEO of WeWork gave him additional experience across both traditional financial-services governance and high-growth, operationally complex companies, a combination the Remitly board cited as directly relevant to leading a scaling, internationally regulated fintech.