en.Wedoany.com Reported - Payana has announced the appointment of Eric Kohan as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). With over 15 years of experience in software engineering and technology leadership, Kohan joins the company after a decade at MercadoLibre. He will be responsible for leading the technology architecture and supporting Payana's regional expansion in Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina.
Payana is a platform focused on artificial intelligence-driven financial automation, currently collaborating with over 1,500 enterprises in Latin America to provide services such as automated financial processes, bank reconciliation, treasury management, and corporate accounting. Kohan's appointment comes at a critical juncture in the company's strategic development. In 2025, Payana's recurring revenue tripled, and it obtained the international information security certification ISO/IEC 27001. Currently, the platform can automate financial tasks including multi-bank reconciliation, tax status verification, fraud prevention, and automatic synchronization with ERP systems such as SAP, NetSuite, and Odoo.
Eric Kohan holds an MBA from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and a postgraduate degree in logistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also the author of research on logistics optimization based on Latin American data and open-source projects on GitHub. During his tenure at MercadoLibre, Kohan led an organization of over 70 engineers and participated in the development of systems capable of processing more than 20 million requests per minute. His key achievements include promoting the use of the Go language within the company's technology ecosystem and launching the MercadoPago crypto wallet, which reached 1 million users within its first 60 days. Recently, the executive has focused on the development of artificial intelligence systems and human-machine collaboration.
Kohan stated that corporate finance in Latin America is at a critical juncture, and artificial intelligence will transform how enterprises manage their financial back offices. Payana is well-positioned to lead this transformation. With Kohan's addition, Payana will strengthen its technological capabilities, deepen integration with banking and tax systems in the region (including Mexico's SAT), and consolidate its position in the Latin American corporate financial automation market.
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