ARTISANS COLLECTION is a luxury marketplace for handcrafted unique pieces of furniture, decor and art showcasing exceptional craftsmanship and design, embodying our commitment to innovation and excellence. This innovative marketplace tells the stories of artisans behind the products through captivating images and videos and engage buyers in the manufactuting process of the unique creations they acquire.I am leading all stages of the creation, launch and scaling of the marketplace: strategy, pricing, partnerships, UX, product, IT, marketing, go to market and sales. The platform is now launched and scaling.Website: www.artisanscollections.comInstagram: @artisanscollectionFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Artisans Collection

I left Remote as I was offered to lead the Global partnerships team at Aleph that was tasked with supporting building, launching and growing our SaaS Solutions business for SMBs (Aleph Express) in developing countries offering simplified e-commerce tools including payments, messaging and advertising on major social platforms we represent, helping merchants selling and advertising, establishing strategic partnerships to support SMBs growth all around the world.On top of this important mission, I was also focused on building our payment cross border solution, identifying payment partners all around the world that will help us achieving our goal. Aleph Group is a leading global enabler of digital advertising connecting thousands of advertisers in emerging countries with the world’s leading digital platforms in 90+ markets across the globe where they don’t have a physical presence. Aleph Group enables platforms like Twitter, Meta, Snapchat, and nearly 30+ others to expand into new markets and advertisers to take full advantage of the platforms’ advertising capabilities.

Remote’s vision is a world in which anyone anywhere is able to build wealth and financial freedom through equal access to employment opportunities in the global economy. We bring that vision to life by creating opportunities for companies and individuals via global, remote employment. This starts with enabling businesses to hire anyone from anywhere easily and compliantly. But it doesn’t stop there. We create global fluency, trust, and belonging for teams through easy, affordable ongoing support covering payroll, benefits, employment lifecycle, expert advice, and other services for companies and individuals.My role at Remote is making sure we enable globally great payment experiences for our customers and end users by partnering with strategic payment players that will help us excel.I am building a team from scratch within the Fintech department, defining the framework and the boundaries needed to operate more efficiently and deliver the best solutions working hand in hand with Compliance, Operations, Product and Engineering.

Meta’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. People use our family of Apps to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.Part of Meta Financial Technologies Partnerships team, I was responsible for launching new payment solutions and experiences such as P2P, P2M, SMB Lending, Open banking, etc, developing the strategy and the roadmap as well as exploring, assessing, developing and negotiating strategic partnerships with issuers, acquirers, schemes, PSPs and fintechs and overseeing new product launches. Serving as the voice of Meta within the Financial Services & Payments industry and the voice of the industry within Meta.In particular, I spent 2 years creating a solution to send money via WhatsApp in the EU using debit cards with PayPal and 1 year working on a solution to provide financial access to SMBs, a lending marketplace.

PayPal is the leading global online payment service built for the digital age. PayPal now has over 200 million active customers around the world and handle and is delivering the future of money. • My responsability as Sr Partner Manager is to define and implement UK overall Strategy for eCommerce & Ticketing Platforms to increase adoption of PayPal services. In particular, my focus is identifying areas for growth that will drive incremental revenue impact and merchant acquisition and engagement across partners, including eCommerce platforms, software providers, digital agencies, system integrators to name but a few. Partners in my portfolio of more than $3.7B (payments volume) include the biggest global eCommerce platforms like Magento, Shopify, Woo Commerce etc.• My responsabilities include to define the KPI’s and action plans: define the what, the how and the when the initiatives part of the strategy will be achieved through the team of partner managers in charge of specific portfolios, define the Marketing initiatives that will drive engagement & acquisition, define the Optimization Plans including all available solutions, support the launch of the new partner’s platform to engage with long tail partners and web agencies, set the strategy to sign new partners and increase brand awareness through specific events with partners in the eCommerce & Ticketing space.Key achievements include leading effectively a team of partner managers increasing the revenue through partners by a double digit more than 20% each year, defining a set of marketing initiatives leveraging the current and future content created by other BU, leveraging the partners to cross sell the entire PayPal value proposition (PayPal EC, Braintree, PayPal Credit, PayPal Working Capital, etc)as well as signing new partners and creating new alliances each year.

Western Union Business Solutions is a global leader in foreign exchange and a trusted payments provider to clients operating in international markets. Backed by a brand with a robust financial network spanning more than 200 countries and territories, and access to over 135 currencies, we empower our clients with simple and reliable cross-border payment solutions.My role was to set up a new division within WUBS to offer our services to FI's accross EMEA defining our value proposition, positioning and pricing in order to support FI's in their international payments.

Develop Western Union Financial Services banking strategy and network and support to grow the business as per goals defined.Launch a certain number of products withing the banking industry. Promote mobile banking and digital services.

Ensure that the company's strategy is implemented in all countries and targets and goals are achieved.Manage an international team based in the UK, Ireland and the Nordics with the objective to make sure Western Union offers its Money Transfer services & products across all the countries including cash to cash, cash to mobile, cash to bank, bank to bank, etc.Led the ABMT (account based money transfer) team to launch the services across all countries through agreements with most European important banks.

Western Union is the market leader in Money Transfer and operates globally through a network of Master Agents. Western Union has a global employee base of 6,000 with approx 1,000 employees across EMEA & CIS.

I started my career as a Management consultant where I spent the first 7 years of my career based in Rome (Italy) working with the Regional and National Public Administration in different initiatives related costs reduction, but also with the European Commission with regards to the spend and effective use of the European Funds in multiple industries/countries. I worked first 3 years in Quantum (afterwards acquired by Accenture), and then 4 years in Coopers & Lybrand/PwC. I then spent 5 years working in Consip with the top 5 Consulting firms in the most important eProcurement project in Italy for the rationalisation of the public spend. We launched the biggest national public Marketplace as well as regional online auctions to optimize public spend.While I was in Consip, I started an executive 2 years MBA in Bologne. During the second year of the MBA I started as Country manager in Italy working for TradingPartners, an eProcurement consulting firm working with large companies helping them to levarage eProcurement tools such as Marketplaces and online auctions: business development/sales/negotiation/project management/implementation. Finally, I worked as a Country Manager Spain within the Corporate Governance industry at Sodali (now MorrowSodali), working with quoted companies, investment firms and corporate law firms, helping them with corporate governance consulting, shareholder and bondholder transactions and institutional investor relations.