Software Skills
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Edge
Sector Experience
Financial Services
Languages
Ukrainian
Russian
Fortune 500
Experience
INTERNATIONAL MONEY EXPRESS
Management Consulting
Consultant / New Products & Bus Strategy
6/2013 - 1/2020
Analyze and optimize existing products and services; review, evaluate, recommend and implement new consumer financial products. Provide operational oversight and decision making on product issues.
ZIPZAP Inc
Product Management / Strategy
SVP Business Development
9/2011 - 4/2013
Assemble a global, walk-in payment network to support cash-payments for eCommerce
IDT TELECOM
Management Consulting
Consultant; SME Remittances
8/2009 - 9/2011
Recruited to analyze, evaluate, recommend and launch a low-principal, money-transfer product duplicating the consumers’ phone-card purchase experience.
OMNEX Group
Product Management / Strategy
Director; Product & Business Dev
3/2006 - 8/2009
Lead the global product and business development and manage the sales team for a white-label money-transfer service sold to banks and financial / retail service providers
Western Union
Product Management / Strategy
VP, International Payments
12/2003 - 3/2006
P&L responsibility for product management and business development for the International Payment Services Division; lead a multi-cultural sales team ; seek out and recommend potential acquisition targets.
ONLINE Resources
Corporate Strategy & Development
Consultant
1/2002 - 11/2003
Analyze, assess and recommend a strategy to re-focus and reposition selling the company’s payment products and e-commerce solutions to large financial institutions
CHECKFREE Corporation
Product Management / Strategy
VP Business Development
6/1996 - 12/2001
Reported to the vice-chairman; hired to develop country-specific business models targeted for potential clients across western Europe; established and managed an internal group that provided bill-payment and EFT consulting to potential international clients and business partners.
Mastercard
Product Management / Strategy
VP, New EFT Products
5/1984 - 6/1996
Hired to analyze and evaluate potential new uses for Mastercard's proprietary authorization and settlement network; designed, developed, launched and managed the first US all-electronic bill-payment network (RPPS), for consumer initiated payments, linking bill-payment providers to billers and lockbox processors; grew the participants from a pilot of 5 to over 100. RPPS continues to be the premier US network and has grown to generate millions in annual transaction fee revenues.