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London, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

Leading Product at BCB which includes payments, e-money, crypto custody, crypto payments, trading, DeFI, yield and Web 3.0 platforms. Member of the executive team. Reporting to the CEO. Focus areas.• Group product strategy, management and commercialisation for all fiat and Crypto payment, storage and exchange products.• Key products; payment accounts, e-money wallets, payments schemes (SWIFT, FPS, SEPA, FedWire etc), insant payments (BLINC), FX and Crypto trading, Crypto custody, proprietary stablecoins, digital assets, tokenisation, CeFi/DeFi Yield and data.• Product regulatory affairs for payments, e-money wallets and Crypto services across EMI, DASP and other financial licence applications in the Isle of Man, France and Switzerland.

London, England, Gb

Building and executing fiat payments & Crypto product strategy following Series A as we scale internationally. • Ownership of the online platform and API and fiat payments, Crypto custody, blockchain, stablecoin and tokenisation products.

London, England, Gb

• 0-1 product management for a proprietary payment focused stablecoin issuance/redemption and custody platform.• Development and authoring of a stablecoin e-money licence application in the Isle of Man.

Limassol, Cy

DeFi The World’s Biggest MVP - https://www.financemagnates.com/trending/defi-the-worlds-biggest-mvp-v2/Interoperability - The Road To Financial Convergence - https://www.financemagnates.com/forex/interoperability-the-road-to-financial-convergence/European Fiat Settlements To Drive Liquidity - https://www.financemagnates.com/institutional-forex/european-instant-fiat-settlements-to-drive-liquidity-for-institutional-crypto/

London, England, Gb

Led the Crypto product division, building the vision and strategy for our enterprise B2B Crypto payments, custody, treasury and proprietary blockchain analytics platform.• Managed a team of 10 Product professionals across 15 concurrent workstreams.• Securely processed ~5% of global daily onchain TX volume.

London, England, Gb

• Launched the algorithmic coin selection product division specialising in maximising blockchain payments TX privacy/liquidity and minimising fees.• Introduced advanced heuristics into a 0-1 proprietary blockchain analytics product to improve payments source of funds checks, address scoring and entity/service clustering.

Fortis Block is a London based start-up enabling users to vote immutably on the blockchain utilising Hyperledger and Ethereum.• Developed the core offering for a B2G/B2B blockchain based mobile voting app.• Led product within the firm across the entire lifecycle.• Member of the Mayor of London's Business Growth Program alumni; managed the full business including Product, PnL, Product Forecasting, Sales, Marketing, Finance and Operations.• Executed 2x private business pilot schemes for international corporate voting.

ASC was a smart city development located adjacent to the $2.5BN Anaklia deep sea port project in the country of Georgia.• Built the product strategy for a blockchain based governance platform across identity, voting and payments.• Led the execution of the overall project and commercialisation strategy.• Engaged and managed senior government stakeholders.

Tallinn, Tallinn, Ee

HiHi! is a mobile blockchain enabled DeFi wallet, API and white label solution that enables holders of blockchain (digital assets) and Cryptocurrency to make Crypto payments, fiat payments and earn fiat interest on Crypto holdings.• Led the market discovery, development and delivery of a B2C Fintech Crypto and blockchain asset savings wallet product.• Developed a novel interest loop utilising fiat non-bank-lending yield.• Connected multiple payment currencies for on/off ramping fiat.• Sole designer of the application UI & UX.• Raised 200k EUR and onboarded over 1000 customers prior to exit.• Managed the full business including PnL, Finance, Sales & Product Marketing.

Director of technology consultancy primarily focused on product creation, development and commercialisation for mobile apps across payments, e-money and financial services.

Multi-award winning music producer, singer and songwriter with chart placing records released on Sony Music, Columbia and Universal Music. Major achievements include:• Top 10 charting indie records in UK & Australian national charts• Multiple performances at global venues including Glastonbury, UK• 10+ international music awards and nominations including Beatport Best Dance Record

Bachelor'S Degree, Geography

Edgbaston, Birmingham

Micro Economics, Economics & Business

Ai For Product Management