Former VP Product, startup founder (Series A+ B2B Fintech). 11+ years exp from IC to leading teams of 100+

Member since Oct 2023

Experience

14 years, 6 months

InfraDigital

Co-Founder & CEO

Nov 2017 - Present (6 yr, 6 m) • remote • full-time

I co-founded a B2B Embedded Fintech Startup, delivering payments, compliance & lending services to thousands of low-income schools across Indonesia.

I oversaw our core product strategy, product roadmap & GTM
- Scaled a payments, clearing & settlement product from 0-$50m annual GTV and profitability.
- Scaled a lending/supply-chain product from 0-$1m+ Revenue.
Teams. Grew and led our team from 0 to >100 people including multiple cross functional product teams
- Managed product & platform teams across payments, lending, compliance & internal tooling
- Oversaw product & engineering roadmaps
Partnerships. Launched Partnerships with Shopee, Gojek, Tokopedia and Tier 1 Indonesian Banks
Compliance. Secured a Central Bank Payments License, ISO 27003, AML, FDA, various business licenses.
Governance. I chaired our board of directors, managed investor relations & our advisory board.
Fundraising. I led fundraising activities for the company through to Series A

Product

LeadershipTeam BuildingpaymentsFundraisinglending

Fusion Payments

VP Product

Feb 2013 - Aug 2017 (4 yr, 6 m) • jakarta, indonesia • full-time

Regional payments company providing checkout, risk & tokenization solutions for large merchants & issuers.

I led product & GTM, managing a portfolio across banking Authentication & Card Processing.
- Launched a B2C bill-payments app which gained >10,000 users within three months of launch.
- Launched Indonesia’s first single-click card payments checkout with XL Axiata & VISA, using card-on-file, direct MOTO connections and complex risk tooling to enable prepaid airtime purchases via credit & debit cards.
Teams. I led 3 distributed product teams and managed the end-end product lifecycle

paymentsProductTeam BuildingTeam LeadershipB2B

Product Manager

Mar 2011 - Feb 2013 (1 yr, 11 m) • jakarta, indonesia • full-time

Regional payments company providing checkout, risk & tokenization solutions for large merchants & issuers.

Product. Started as the company's first PM, later building product teams during a period of rapid growth.
- Managed the rollout of 3D Secure authentication messaging for several major card issuers in the country, including enabling the country's debit cards for online use.
- Led XL Axiata & Axis mobile banking portals, integrating several of the top banks in the country and allowing user to check balances, transfer & pay bills from their phone
Hired & led our Indonesian team of 25+ people of predominantly PMs, Engineers & QA

Product

Vodafone

Network Service Analyst

Dec 2009 - Nov 2010 (11 m) • dublin, ireland • full-time

Ericsson

GNOC Engineer

Oct 2007 - Jun 2008 (8 m) • sydney, australia • full-time

Education

Trinity College Dublin

Master of Science (MS), Ubiquitous Computing

2005 - 2007

Trinity College Dublin

Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Information & Communications Technology

2001 - 2005

Volunteering

Chair of the Board of Trustees

IDF Indonesia

Aug 2019 - Present

I co-founded an educational non-profit focused on improving Indonesian vocational student outcomes. We run large scale teacher training programs across Java.

Program director. On founding, I led research, fundraising, impact measurement and initial hiring.
- Designed & secured funding for our flagship $1.3m program with Mastercard
- Trained 5,779 students & 379 teachers across 377 vocational schools
Trustee. I now advise the board of the directors on strategy for programs running with partners that include Grab, Microsoft & various Indonesian government ministries.