Summary
Manuel Huez is a seasoned product leader and founder with 11 years of experience building payments infrastructure and routing technology from Paris. He founded ProcessOut, a smart payments router that was acquired by Checkout.com, and went on to lead payments processing as VP Product there, demonstrating deep domain expertise in transaction optimization at scale. Manuel combines hands-on engineering roots (EPITA) with startup-building experience—he also founded Indexeus, a Big Data search engine—and mentors startups through Techstars. Now a partner at 51 Partners, he blends product strategy, technical fluency, and operator experience to help companies navigate complex payments and data challenges. Notably, his career shows a pattern of turning research-grade engineering into commercial products that save merchants money on every transaction.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
Sophomore Computer Science, Sophomore Computer Science at California State University, Monterey Bay
English, French