Johana began in international payments and currency software at PayPal, then spent nearly five years at Google as a senior product manager, taking Google Payments products from concept through to launch across technical and business teams. By 2016 she had built enough payment infrastructure to want to understand the other side of it, and joined the Asian Development Bank — where she spent six years leading integrity investigations into ADB-financed operations and producing findings serious enough to carry sanctions.
That pairing is unusual, and it is the premise Corridex is built on. Most platforms treat compliance as a gate bolted on after the routing decision: pick a rail, then screen what goes down it. Corridex treats them as one decision, because a rail cannot be chosen well in ignorance of what screening will do to the payment once it is on it. The reason cross-border payments are slow is rarely the rail — it is everything that happens around it.
She co-founded Corridex in 2023 and leads the company.