FI Connections provides business development, brand building, sales, and project management services to a curated portfolio of Banks, Fintechs, and PSPs. A sample of the companies that FI Connections is working with: * Connecting people and Fintechs. I’m passionate about helping my friends find the perfect role and my friends find the best employees. * JWA Consulting: Short term project to research a new business idea and draft the initial business outline enabling the team to access the business opportunity.* New Bank Rail: Strategic Advisor. Short term project to research the market for a new bank rail bringing together communities of local banks into one network for banking and payments. Worked with the team at Tern Commerce to develop the initial business plans. * Apply Financial: Head of Sales, Americas. Launched Apply Financial’s payment validation APIs to the North American market of banks and payment providers. Brought the first US-based bank to Apply Financial. Helped with the transition to Accuity after the March 2020 merger of Apply Financial and Accuity.

Excited to be working with the great team at NYPay on the Events Committee.

Researching and sourcing candidates for innovative Fintechs and payment companies.

Fintech Fight Club is a small group of payment industry veterans who love to debate the central topics of the day. The debate is a mainstay of academics and experts in various fields. The format allows a deep dive into the best arguments for/against a broad resolution. Fintech Fight Club is a researched debate and debaters argue for/against a set topic, we may be making an argument that is at odds with our personal beliefs, allowing debaters and attendees to challenge their deeply held assumptions. Let’s all think outside of our own box and look at all perspectives.

WOW. I'm excited to join the alums of Money2020 and Shoptalk on their newest project: Fintech Spring Meetup. We will be bringing together over 1,000 people from fintech, payments, crypto, and banking, etc for more than 10,000 double opt-in virtual meetings for three days in June.

Relationship Management: Working to grow the Ripple network with banks and payment providers in the Americas. Building the knowledge base in the market on distributed ledger technology, enabling payments and FX SME’s (subject matter experts) to fully understand the power of this technology to change the world of international small value payments preparing us for the internet of value. Working with Ripple's clients to go live and grow their network of partners and payments on Ripplenet.

Head of Transactional FX (TFX) Americas, TFX is FX in collections and payments. Focusing on online collections, cross currency credit cards, third party currency payments for payrolls vendors or online sellers. Responsible for building new business across the bank working in partnership with for internal and external parties. Accountable for all aspects of TFX product management from marketing, internal sales training, client solutioning and presentation through to revenue optimization. Focusing on verticals to develop specific solutions - Created sales and marketing campaigns for TFX products, including working with internal and external marketing groups. Developed strategic materials from case studies, fact sheets to individual sales presentations. - Developed and conducted an internal training program, conducting over 50 sessions annually for Relationship Managers, Cash Management Sales, and Global FX stakeholders. Showing how HSBC can help our clients to digitally transform their cross border payments. - Interfaced with other strategic groups at HSBC, to define and subsequently develop new business models to capitalize on HSBC’s TFX digital offerings.

March 2010 – May 2012 – London FX4Cash Product Sales SpecialistSubject matter expert and product specialist for: FX4Cash. Based in London supported over 200 sales people in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), in Global Markets and Transaction Banking. Covered corporations, financial institutions and non bank financial institutions.• Drove sales to increase revenues by 150% in 2011 year on year.June 2006 – March 2010 - New YorkGlobal Director of dbFXManaged Deutsche Bank’s online retail FX trading service including designed the strategy, product development, coordination with legal and compliance to training the sales staff. The public name of dbFX to promote online trading to the target retails clients, responsible for press activities including: print, web, broadcast and speaking at Deutsche Bank sponsor events and global third party sponsored conferences.September 2003 – June 2006 - New YorkautobhanFX North America SalesIntroduced autobahnFX to the North American banking market. From defining the client market, sales and relationship management. Generated substantial revenues for Deutsch bank while establishing the autobahnFX brand in the North American market.

Recruited by the firm to manage Product Development for new business initiatives in foreign exchange, including services into B2B platforms and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage.

1999 - 2001 - New Yorke-Citi Product Management- c2it: Responsible for all facets of definition and development of the customer experience of a revolutionary new person-to-person internet payment service. - citiwallet: Responsible for all facets of implementation and production of e-citi's digital wallet (CitiWallet) directly marketed to on-line shoppers.1993 – 1999 - New York E-FX Sales: The first E-FX Sales person on the street, developed the concept to offer clients the choice of communication method, Reuters dealing, phone or E. Built the e-sales to a successful business with Bank is in North America. Sales for FX-Match, Citi Bank’s on-line FX confirmation matching service