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Canada

• Business Development (BD), Mastercard AdvisorsResponsibilities:
• Building and maintaining relationships with financial institutions (FI) across Canada.
• Developing new consulting projects across strategy & transformation, data analytics, loyalty, marketing services and platform-based solutions, and leading sales end-to-end from initial prospecting through signed.
• Appointed as Business Lead on 4 key FI accounts and grew YoY revenue and pipeline by over 100% in 2024.
• Exceeded sales targets YoY by achieving 157% on total contract value (TCV) and 109% on in-year revenue (IYR) in 2022, and 133% on TCV and 175% on IYR in 2023.

North America, Europe, Asia

• Associate Managing Consultant & Project Manager, Mastercard Advisors (2021-2022)Consultant, Mastercard Advisors (2019-2021) Responsibilities:
• Managed consulting projects for issuing banks, acquirers and fintech companies in North America, Europe and Asia.
• Led client relationships and engagement teams of 2-to-5 consultants delivering projects on topics consisting of strategy, payment performance (authorization, fraud, chargeback), market scan, benchmarking, market entry.
• Conducted strategy, risk & operations assessment for a leading issuing bank in Canada. Prepared a roadmap with 20+ recommendations to optimize product strategy, operating model and payment channels for their debit card.
• Managed process optimization for a leading program and platform manager in USA and improved go-to-market (GTM) timeline of new payment services and card products by 50%.
• Prepared 5 GTM strategy assessment reports for a leading financial services & digital payments company in USA.

EMEA

• Responsibilities:
• Supported delivery of consulting projects for financial institutions and telecommunication industries in EMEA on topics consisting of business plan, organizational design, process improvement, and operating.
• Designed the organization structure (50+ employees) and process mapping for the Corporate Sales Unit of a leading pensions and life insurance company, resulted in an increase in pension funds net assets by 25%.
• Supported the business transformation of a leading telecommunications company, designed the organization structure (15+ employees) and updated product portfolio by analyzing 40+ global digital payment products.

EMEA

• Responsibilities:
• Qualitative and quantitative market research design and execution for the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, 3.6/4.0

• President of MBA Club • Founder & President of International Case Competitions Team; competed in Hult Prize regional finals • Merit.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, 3.8/4.0

MBA Exchange Program

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Industrial Engineering