Robert P. Soden

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International Business Development Executive & Management - across Payments / Digital Assets Security / ESG / Crypto / Blockchain / Biometrics & Identity / Cybersecurity. @ ZEN.COM
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Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, United States
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About Robert P. Soden

Permanent Residency in both Hong Kong and in Singapore. Holder of APAC Business Travel Card (aids visa free access in many countries).A British/Brazilian dual national, living and spending 25 years spearheading Business Development in the Asia Pacific region across all verticals. A natural networker & connector - have assisted leading Israel, USA, Indian, Brazil and EU companies in Asia entry. Asia Executive Roles (Past & Present):-Director Singapore & Hong Kong - fast growing and very cool payments Co.Corporate Development Officer - of very innovative digital assets custody solutionAdvisor to the Board / Corporate Development Officer - of new payments switchInvestor in Causal AI Co. and also in Medical Membership Programme.Ex Managing Director of Authentify (Asia Office) – a world leader in multi-factor biometric authentication (acquired by Early Warning in 2015)Ex Award winning Sales Director (Asia office) for Daon, a leading global Identity management Co.Ex Award winning Country Manager (Asia office) for a FTSE100 international banking software Co.Ex Managing Director (Asia office) of ranked EU #1 financial communications Co.Special focus on selling to FIs, Banks, Gov and Fintechs in Asia. Payment Solutions, Biometrics & Identity solutions, Digital Assets Security Infrastructure Solutions, Cybersecurity, and SaaS solutions. Specialties: Start ups / operational - (office set up in Singapore, Hong Kong & Japan) Frequent speaker at Conferences across Asia Relationship & Major Account Management Independent & Trusted with overseas management & budgetsSales network across Asia - Resellers / Distributors and local "on the ground"MBA qualified Languages - English; Portuguese, Spanish (Basic)Association Memberships (Past & Present):- Fintech Association of Hong Kong Member FIDO Association Marketing Member Marketing Committee at British Chamber in SingaporeISACAAwards:Daon-CEO Excellence Award (Quarter & End of Year)Misys Overachievers AwardSports:Keen competitive sailor...with the odd win here and thereWeekly tennis, table tennis, squash - and if time ever permits...the odd round of golf!Waterskier / Diver for many years.

Robert P. Soden's Current Company Details
ZEN.COM

Zen.Com

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International Business Development Executive & Management - across Payments / Digital Assets Security / ESG / Crypto / Blockchain / Biometrics & Identity / Cybersecurity.
Robert P. Soden Work Experience Details
  • Zen.Com
    Director
    Zen.Com Jul 2020 - Present
    Vilnius, Lt
    ZEN - zero effort nonbank™ZEN.COM is a complete payment processing solution to grow your business.Accept and process payments globally. Transfer money and manage your financials in 28 currencies with one ZEN.COM account offering a dedicated IBAN.Maximise the full potential of your ZEN.COM account with ZEN Mastercard® physical and virtual cards. Available for you and your team to seamlessly manage your funds.Enjoy a holistic platform that enables fast, secure and low-cost money transfers, in-store and online payments, and exchanging FIAT currencies to digital currencies.
  • Vaultavo
    Co-Founder & Corporate Development Officer
    Vaultavo Nov 2022 - Present
    New York & London , Us
    Vaultavo Inc. (“Vaultavo”) offers the world’s first biometric enabled digital asset custody solution using the world’s first biometrically enable digital asset smart card (“Vaultavo Card”) combined with the world’s first card HSM (“Vaultavo Vault”) to protect blockchain assets in a unique fashion by securely creating and managing the private key on a bank grade secure card, thereby protecting blockchain assets for its clients, simply, securely, and easily.The Vaultavo product flow video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Q--tfRHLY
  • Cranium Ventures
    Advisor To The Board
    Cranium Ventures Oct 2020 - Present
    London, Gb
    Spoiler Alert - 75% of consumer payments are processed on technology from the 1970s & 1980s! Cranium Ventures has developed next generation technologies & business models designed to build interoperability for payments & financial services. Payments As A Service - helping the banks to take back the acquiring ground. Fintech As A Service - Intermediation framework; App Store of white-label 3rd party services. Settlement As A Service - instant any-to-any settlement globally and ESG Payment Exchange token.
  • Fwd.Asia Ltd
    Director
    Fwd.Asia Ltd Jan 2005 - Present
    "Land & Expand" across ASIA. 20+ years on Asia expansion operationally. If companies want to proactively accelerate sales and business development anywhere in Asia. Currently advising companies involved with Government projects, Identity, Biometrics, eKYC, Fraud Management, Cybersecurity, Open Banking and Fintech.
  • Fintech Association Of Hong Kong
    Member
    Fintech Association Of Hong Kong Jul 2019 - Present
    Hong Kong, Hk
  • Totm Technologies Limited
    Identity & Biometrics Consultant
    Totm Technologies Limited Nov 2021 - Present
    Orchard, Central Singapore Community Development Council, Sg
    Singapore Stock Exchange listed - helping governments and businesses build effective and robust digital identity management solutions with state-of-the-art technology secured by biometrics and ensure privacy, security and convenience using biometrics through advanced, proprietary solutions.
  • Transmit Security
    Business Development Consultant
    Transmit Security Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
    Tel Aviv, Il
    Consultant to help land & expand their Australia footprint in to Asia and to encourage organisations to utilise their password solution. This was achieved by leveraging the consultant network; retained and used lead generation companies and telesales, and extensive social media, direct marketing and direct selling. Generated over 100 meeting in 5 months.
  • Daon
    Sales Director - Asia Pacific / International
    Daon Mar 2016 - Sep 2020
    Fairfax, Virginia, Us
    Successfully helped launched Daon "footprint" into Asia. Approx 23 clients signed, including Standard Chartered Bank, Mox Bank, Bank of China, Dah Sing Bank, Union Bank, Security Bank, the Hong Kong Jockey Club, Tonik Bank, the Securities & Futures Commission and many more. Received CEO Excellence - End of Year Employee award. Role was to prospect and generate new sales of authentication & biometric software - allowing financial institutions, governments and commercial enterprises to establish trust that someone is who they claim to be - wether that is onboarding a new client or ongoing authentication. Daon is an innovator in developing and deploying biometric authentication and identity assurance solutions worldwide, including VeriFly™ - Covid related credentials "digital health passport". Daon has pioneered methods for securely and conveniently combining biometric and identity capabilities across multiple channels with large-scale deployments that span payments verification, digital banking, wealth, insurance, telcos, and securing borders and critical infrastructure.
  • Authentify Ltd
    Managing Director - Asia Pacific / International
    Authentify Ltd Jan 2006 - Apr 2015
    Authentify Inc was acquired by Early Warning Inc on the 7th April 2015 - a seven bank consortium: Bank of America, BB&T, Capital One, JPMorgan Case, PNC, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo.Authentify Inc "started" the 'out-of-band authentication market from 'Cloud' back in year 2000! We progressed out-of-band authentication to biometric solutions (PKI, finger, voice, face etc). Authentify Ltd (Hong Kong) - wholly owned by Authentify Inc - the opportunity arose to personally purchase Authentify Ltd and this has been renamed as Forward Asia Limited (FWD.ASIA Ltd) - a Company dedicated to helping USA/EU companies wanting to do business across Asia Pacific and also investing / investment raising for FinTechs. An exciting ride to be part of! Signing up the likes of HSBC, the Lloyds banking Group and many more. Setting up the Authentify KK office in Japan and prospecting with all the major banks. Selling into India - with banks such as HDFC using our solution - and even "winning" the Innovation Award in India against many competitors was a highlight! Guest speaker at many events including NextBank - in which I received a standing ovation! (Don't believe me - see my Post video!) https://vimeo.com/66209159I submitted our solution to India Technovity Competition and won! Named Most Innovative e-Security Solution in 2015 by Banking Frontiers. http://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2015/01/14/697207/22745/en/Authentify-xFA-TM-Named-Most-Innovative-e-Security-Solution-for-2015-by-Banking-Frontiers-Technoviti-Awards.html
  • Arial Group
    Co-Founder / Director
    Arial Group Jan 2005 - Mar 2006
    Arial Group managed the Asia Pacific customers and operations of Consul Risk Management (prior to acquisition by IBM) - and promoted Consuls technology to help customers accelerate their security audit and compliance efforts. Arial Group International was formed to respond to the increasing need for customers to address Enterprise Risks but is no longer operational since the acquisition of Consul. However, we managed large clients such as the Australian Tax Office (ATO); the Australian Defence, IBM, Telstra and many more including full mainframe audit projects for Bank of China in HK, and across China.
  • British Standards Institution (Bsi)
    Vice President (Asia)
    British Standards Institution (Bsi) Sep 2002 - Aug 2004
    Business development and promotion of Management Solutions i.e. ISO9000, BS7799, ISO14000 etc. Launched India's first National Summit on Information Security with Microsoft and Symantec. I was part of a 3 person management team in a centralised hub in Hong Kong - my role was helping the Country Managers across 10 countries in Asia implement effective sales & marketing processes. I proposed and implemented salesforce.com - as early adopter in Asia - now in use globally by BSI. Supported the Asia sales teams in sales meetings, attended many signing ceremonies across Asia to promote BSI - from major brands such as Samsung to the Hong Kong Jockey Club.
  • Misys
    Country Manager (Hong Kong) Of Act Financial Systems
    Misys Sep 2000 - Jan 2002
    London, London, Gb
    Provision of Financial Institutions software technology. Country Manager overseeing 45 staff. Achieved over 50% profit growth with major clients in Hong Kong (CLSA, Jardines, Boom,com, Goldman Sachs, Chase, Cazenove, West LB etc) and new client in Malaysia (RHB). Received the Misys Plc over-achievers award - one of only two country managers world wide to receive such award.
  • Xponet.Com
    Director Of Business Development
    Xponet.Com Feb 2000 - Feb 2001
    Xponet- dotcom start up in the printing sector - raised US$7M. Signed up over 1,000 companies. Then the dot com crash and cash ran out! Good learning experience.
  • Fpc Greenaway
    Managing Director
    Fpc Greenaway Apr 1996 - Mar 2000
    An International Communications & Financial Documentation Company specializing in international documentation and project management for IPO's, equity, debt issues etc -working in conjunction with the leading international investment banks and global law firms. I helped set up the International division - travelling constantly across EU, S. America and Asia. Won many prestigious deals such as the IPO of GUM in Russia, Raffles Hotel in Singapore etc. I was responsible for setting up and development of the Asia Pacific offices including the typesetting operations and recruiting and training all the staff.

Robert P. Soden Skills

Dod Information Assurance Security Clearance Integration Requirements Analysis Business Development Start Ups Management Product Management Business Strategy Risk Management New Business Development E Commerce Project Management Security Strategic Planning Sales Business Analysis Product Development Team Leadership Social Media

Robert P. Soden Education Details

  • London Metropolitan University (Mba)
    London Metropolitan University (Mba)
    Master Of Business Administration - Mba
  • London Metropolitan University
    London Metropolitan University
  • University Of Surrey
    University Of Surrey
    Bachelor Of Science
  • London Metropolitan University
    London Metropolitan University
    Executive Mba

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