Mike Landau Email & Phone Number

Purchase, Ny, Us

• Leading team of product managers responsible for a suite of products that enhance the quality of checkout experiences and enhance the value of card acceptance for >90 million Mastercard-accepting locations globally• Product ownership includes contactless payments (NFC), Mastercard's Sonic brand, a suite of AI-based Acceptance solutions, Acceptance analytics and data quality, and Bill Pay optimization• Developed, piloted, and commercialized a suite of AI-based models which identify merchants at risk of attrition and match merchants to products with high potential to optimize performance

Purchase, Ny, Us

• Led contactless product strategy and global Go-to-Market initiatives focused on accelerating global adoption of NFC-based payments. Over this time, across 200 markets contactless grew from 25% of global Mastercard in-store transactions to over 50% • Commercialized a package of AI models for customers that optimized decision making for the roll out of NFC-enabled cards and terminals • Led NFC product response to COVID-19, including a global campaign to minimize PIN-entry prompts (~80 markets implemented), narrative packages, and the design of touch free checkout flows

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• Manager in PwC's Financial Services Practice. Clients included national banks, global payments processors, data providers, and cryptocurrency exchanges• Led internal educational programs and engaged clients to establish a business development function focused on the cryptocurrency space• Payments Research Lead and Product Manager for a FinTech venture funded and developed by PwC Financial Services • My weekly views on the FinTech and Payments landscape were published on PwC's DeNovo research portal and in media interviews.Focus areas: consumer payments, cryptocurrrencies / digital assets, blockchain, commercial payments, and consumer finance

New York, Ny, Us

• Developed and owned financial models to evaluate the health and growth prospects for businesses in the FinTech and payments space, covering networks, acquirers, processors and issuers with a combined market cap of $500 billion• Published investment ideas, engaged investors, and performed due diligence for initial public offerings in the industryTime capsule from this time in history for the payment geeks: The tip of the iceberg for the relevance of ISVs and PayFacs in payments, the rising tide of card networks' attention to diversification, and the infancy of software eating the POS

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

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Arlington, Va, Us

Mba

Certificate, Portfolio Management

Ba, Economics