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In this newly created role, I am responsible for Galileo's overall banking partnership strategy. My goal is to deepen and grow engagement with Galileo's bank partners and support growth for our mutual clients.

PayGility Advisors is a payments industry advisory and strategic consultancy. We have combined experience of many decades in payments and Fintech — working in the industry, providing consulting, and conducting due diligence for investors. Our client experience comprises all segments of the payment ecosystem, including card issuers, merchant acquirers, networks, bank consortiums, processors, merchants and and Fintech startups.Specialties include payments strategy, competitive positioning, market entry strategy, aligning business and technology strategies, partnership negotiation and selection, mobile payments, mPOS, merchant payment optimization, cross-border payments, cryptocurrencies, credit/debit cards, co-brand/private label, commercial / B2B payments and real-time / faster payments.Frequent panelist/moderator/presenter at industry events.Advisor/consultant relationships with top-tier and niche payment consultancies.

In this newly created Americas role, identify and implement payment solutions to enhance customer experience, increase revenue and improve efficiency. Manage and deepen relationships with payments providers for our US and Canada businesses, including networks, acquirers, gateways and specialized travel payment providers. Serve as Regional payments SME for global digital transformation initiatives across our corporate and consumer businesses.Areas of innovation include B2B virtual payments, SME payments/expense solutions, consumer credit products including POS/installment lending.

Inter-Operability Working Group Member

Industry Specialist on equity research team covering the payments industry. Act as thought-leader identifying critical payments trends and analyzing their potential impact on the share and revenue of global payment networks (e.g., Visa, MasterCard). Co-author of 100+ publications targeted at institutional investors which received substantial readership vs. other industries. Primary focus on the impact of technology and government on competition and industry development, including mobile payments, new entrants (e.g., PayPal, MCX), and regulation (Durbin, e.g., SEPA, PSD) in the US and globally.

Member of the US Region management team. Responsible for new business line growth for the US region. Created and managed team of 7 VPS responsible for identifying growth opportunities in consumer, commerical and B2B payments, business case development, sell-in to executive management for funding, and implementation of new business lines for the US region. Established competitive intelligence function. Partnered closely with Product, Technology, and Sales/Account management teams.

Created and managed team responsible for selling in contactless payments, mobile payments and credit products to US large and regional banks. Represented customer in product development process.

Responsible for sales and account management large and regional card issuing banks. Held positions of increasing responsibility, including a team of 8 VPs responsibile for 13 financial institutions. Negotiated long-term contracts with large FIS, enforced contrack and collateral requirements, identified growth opportunities for new and existing card products, sold in ancillary services (e.g., consulting, marketing programs).

Various positions managing travel programs marketed to cardholders, including Membership Rewards, Executive Corporate Travel, Interactive/Online Travel. Negotiated first-ever agreement with partner for on-line booking engine.

Ab, International Relations

Activities and Societies: Semester abroad at City of London Polytechnic

Mba, International Business/Marketing