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Expanding Forter's presence and impact in the payment processing domain. We're building intelligent payment solutions that leverage direct partnerships with top financial institutions around the world to increase authorisation rates, reduce fraud and minimise transaction fees for our customers.

Building next-gen authentication infrastructure for issuers & processors (apata.com). Employee #6.- Launched Apata's ACS product in 2022, scaling to process over €1bn per month by EOY.- Led projects with Visa and Mastercard to obtain Apata's 3DS Product Certification.- Led ACS onboarding projects & migrations for over 150 issuing banks since launch.- Established and led Apata's Customer Success team & associated operating procedures.- Led RfP processes to identify and negotiate & sign partnerships with key vendors.- Negotiated first-of-kind performance optimisation partnership with merchant risk vendors.

- Established Stripe's pilot Delegated Authentication product & PoC partnership.- Co-authored Stripe's Open Banking product strategy & negotiated/signed vendor partnerships.- Internal subject matter expert for PSD2 & advisor for Stripe's Open Banking investments.- EMEA lead for authorization optimization initiatives with banks (Stripe's Enhanced Issuer Program).- Speaker and industry thought leader for SCA & OB at conferences & industry fora.

- Regional Lead for Stripe's partnerships with Visa & Mastercard.- Responsible for defining Stripe's SCA product requirements to ensure regulatory compliance.- Facilitated the development and rollout of Stripe's SCA-ready product suite ahead of deadline.- Secured & operationalised Principal Acquiring & Issuing licenses in IE (Brexit risk mitigation).- Facilitated the beta launch of Stripe's Issuing product in Europe with Visa and Mastercard.- Led technical projects with networks to launch Stripe's product in 13 new EU countries.- Enabled the launch of multi-currency settlement in 15 new currencies (product enhancement).- Developed Stripe's issuer partnerships across EMEA, before moving into a dedicated issuer role.

• Partner Manager for a subset of Visa's strategic accounts in Europe.• Responsible for leading strategy & product workshops with global clients to test emerging tech.• Responsible for managing complex regional contract negotiations with Visa's partners.• Oversaw technical proof-of-concept project delivery between cross-functional teams.

• Partner Manager for Visa Europe's largest strategic partner (Visa Inc.) prior to the global merger, including annual contractual negotiations and budgetary responsibility in excess of $200m.• In parallel, managed production of cross-functional performance reports for executive leadership (monthly tracking of 50+ strategic company objectives).

5 rotations within the talent programme (reverse chronological):• 12 months - Operations Analyst (Business Strategy)• 6 months - Implementation Analyst (Client Services)• 6 months - Business Analyst (Business Systems Analysis & Design)• 6 months - Test Analyst (Acceptance Testing)• 6 months - AIX System Administator (Tech Operations)Additionally:• Consistent high performer (rated in top 10% of company)• Committee chairman for the talent programme