Avin Arumugam Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

New York, NY, US

Searchlight Capital Partners is a private investment firm currently deploying its fourth multi-billion $ fund, operating from New York, London and Toronto. In my role as Operating Partner, I guide payment companies through pivotal transformations from distribution-led to product-led models. Leveraging the firm's extensive resources and my industry.

Burlingame, California, US

Private Label embedded Financial Services.

• Serve as fractional CPO for a range of organizations, including Sightline Payments, Struck Capital, Akerna (Nasdaq: KERN), Bicycle, Searchlight Capital Partners, Swell Energy, and Fintech Meetup Conference.
• Partner with Sightline Payments Co-CEOs to redesign entire product development and delivery strategy (i.e., future payments integration, cashless casinos). B2B
• With Searchlight Capital Partners, advise global parking management solutions company (Flowbird) on entering US market as payments facilitator. B2B
• Led M&A activities with regards to payments for publicly listed company, Akerna: negotiated contracts with key vendors and defined payment strategy. B2C
• As Operating Partner at Struck Capital, coach and train portfolio companies on a viable Product Development Life Cycle. B2B & B2C
• Work with leadership at leading energy company (Swell Energy) to rebuild brand around fintech and emerging revenue stream via payments. B2C

San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

• Recruited to head up payments function prior to IPO (pre-acquisition by NYSE: Uber) when Postmates was $4B in TPV.
• Managed 20+ professionals and led efforts to secure Postmates as 1 of 8 global merchants (with Apple, Google, Netflix) to connect directly to Visa for network EMVCO tokenization (completed transfer of all cards to.
• Oversaw all vendor relationships (Stripe, Visa) and merchant experience (Olo, Chowly).
• Led post-close transition after Uber’s acquisition, securing 100% employment for team.

Folsom, CA, US

• Executive team member and leader of product expansion at Series B insurance payments provider.
• Stood up 6-member product management team and established complete product life cycle to support ~130 remote engineers in Russia, Mexico, and the US.
• Revamped product delivery process, completing 13 customer implementations in 4 months with $1.8M in revenue.
• With executive team, successfully led private equity exit with Great Hill Partners in 8 months.

Foster City, California, US

• Led global IoT team into 4 verticals (cars, home, wearables, and cities), reporting to EVP of Strategic Partnership & Innovation.
• Established 17-person global IoT team responsible for managing and driving partnerships and collaboration with IoT leaders and enablers across Europe, LatAm, Asia, and the US.
• Managed relationships with all global IoT players; traveled extensively to meet with dev and ops teams at Samsung, IBM, Square, Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, BMW, VW, Fitbit, Garmin, and Swatch.
• Expert witness and spokesperson for Visa payments at key industry events, including speaking before UK Parliamentary leaders (MPs from the House of Commons, House of Lords) on cashless payments and IoT).
• Led Visa (NYSE:V) partner program (Visa Ready) now used by 500+ partners in 11 product verticals for third-party integrations including EMVCO, PCI, P2P and others.

Foster City, California, US

As head of Visa Ventures, restructured Visa’s venture investment committee, hired dedicated Venture Manager, and directed strategic investments in fintech space (Marqeta, Klarna, Finix Payments, and Bridg).

New York, NY, US

• Reporting to Head of Digital for Chase, served in 4 leadership roles over 4.5 years. Managed 12-member team of subject matter experts (credit issuing, debit, acquiring, development, operations, compliance, legal).
• Worked with Head of Digital to secure JPMC as 1 of first 5 banks to sign on to Apple Pay integration; oversaw ~165+ member implementation team.
• At CEO’s direction, joined 30-member team tasked with launching ChaseNet, JPMC’s proprietary payment network (JPMC reported $848B in merchant-processing charge volume in 2014, up 81% from $469B in 2010).
• Led 14-person team and 400+ employees working on Chase Pay; signed up first 8 marque merchants in 8 weeks; reported weekly at CEO’s executive steering committee.
• Managed core team of 8 teammates and ~150-member support team to launch Samsung Pay in 24 weeks.
• Established corporate venture team within JPMC to identify and invest in payment startups.

San Jose, CA, US

Led product development and global implementation of mobile applications, including emerging mobile markets in LATAM. Business and strategic owner for Payflow Payment Gateway, processing 25% of US e-commerce ($207B) in 2006. Increased revenue and overall transaction processing volume by 15% and drove $70M in savings annually by converting 50K merchants to.

Brookfield, Wisc., US

Managed portfolio of e-commerce platforms and helped define company’s long-term mobile strategy. Primary business owner for the LinkPoint/YourPay Gateway, increasing merchant volume by 15%. Headed up development, rollout, and management of the first gift card program to 3900+ agents.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, (Dual Mba Program)

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, (Dual Mba Program)

Executive Education Certificate, Directors Consortium

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics And Computer Science