Resume

Global payments network powering real-time payments across UK, US, EU, and APAC. Executive lead in APAC on the global leadership team.

• Shaped AI-driven agentic commerce and Pay by Bank solution design for Amazon PoC supporting enterprise-scale deployment strategy and executive partnerships.
• Secured ~$10M in 2025 SoW's with National Australia Bank — structured two-part build vs. run-and-support pricing model locking in predictable recurring revenue.
• Commercialised UAE Open Finance GTM strategy within 3 months — deep market research, regional conferences, partner/regulator relationships accelerating Middle East expansion.

Founded and scaled an open banking Pay by Bank platform from zero to $5M seed funding and strategic acquisition by UK-based Banked.

• Built and led Waave from idea to live product in 12 months — 25+ person cross-functional team, executive team, and advisory board.
• Launched Australia's first biometrically secured Pay by Bank wallet — 20+ enterprise merchants, $1M+ processing volume, Canstar Innovation Excellence Award 2024.
• Negotiated three-way partnership (Chemist Warehouse × ShopBack × Waave/Banked) for Australia's first national in-store Pay by Bank — 3M+ ShopBack users across 2,500+ merchants.
• Built commercial performance infrastructure from scratch — 15 revenue/margin/health metrics across 3 executive dashboards.
• Engineered land-and-expand with Wendi insights product — 10k+ users in 3 months at ~$1.70 CAC using open-banking UX experiments and national TV coverage.
• Architected first international Pay by Bank expansion with Brazilian Open Finance provider Iniciador for iFood — six-month build-to-production program.
• Instituted data-driven sales rhythm — forecast accuracy to ~75%, conversion from qualified opportunities to signed deals improved ~30% within 12 months.
• Primary liaison to central bank, Treasury, and banking partners — first Open Banking-powered payment platform, accreditation-to-launch window mid-2022 to early 2023.
• Directed investor-grade financial models for Series A preparation with Sequoia, Iconiq, SquarePeg — supporting successful acquisition outcome.
• Designed tokenised Coke Pay ecosystem bridging card rails to real-time settlement — path to shift 10–20% of regional volume off cards over 2–3 years.
• Incubated two open-banking data risk models: Clearance Risk Minimisation (111-hour gap to <1% retries) and Data Anatomy model powering the Wendi insights product.

Owned regional APAC commercial strategy and execution for enterprise platforms, hospitality, and QSR segments.

• Contributed ~$60M+ ARR from global multinational merchants — APAC as one of Adyen's fastest-growing regions contributing 11% of global net revenue.
• Led Adyen for Platforms APAC commercial launch — signed Oolio (~$1B+ TPV), Next Order including Adyen Capital.
• Selected as one of five global facilitators for Adyen Academy — advanced commercial training for 90+ new hires and 15+ managers.
• Secured Australia's Financial Services Licence as founding Responsible Manager — zero significant compliance findings.

Strategic APAC hire launching the Australian business from market entry.

• Launched Australian business — office setup, recruiting, coaching, grew APAC team from first hire to 42 FTE, $50B transaction volume, >100% revenue growth in early years.
• Acquired enterprise portfolio generating ~$25M ARR — reference customers including Canva, Chemist Warehouse, Hungry Jack's.
• Won Canva from global competitor — scaled from 1M+ to 10M+ monthly recurring transactions over four years, 10x revenue growth.
• Grew Chemist Warehouse online TPV from ~$100M to ~$600M within 2 years, cutting payment costs ~30%, leading to $6B TPV in-store opportunity.
• Signed Hungry Jack's ~$1.6B omnichannel processing mandate — profiled in Australian Financial Review.
• Built strategic partnerships with Apple, Google, BNPL providers (Afterpay, Zip), and card networks (Visa, Mastercard) — 10+ wallets and APMs.

Progressively senior banking and lending roles managing diversified retail and corporate client portfolios.

• 125%+ to plan across all banking and lending roles.
• Promoted to Senior Manager within NAB — led two specialists, overseeing transactional banking and portfolio growth.
• NAB Star100 — top 5% nationally among ~40,000 colleagues.
• Selected for NAB's 18-month Group Talent Pool (400 leaders nationally) — pipeline to General Manager roles.