Functional Skills

Business Development
Sales Strategy
Product Strategy
Finance Transformation
Innovation Management
Operations Management
M&A Support
Geographic Expansion

Software Skills

Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Salesforce

Sector Experience

Financial Services
Retail
Technology
Telecom

Languages

English
Spanish
Italian

Experience

Payrails Product Management / Strategy
VP, Product (Interim)
5/2024 - 2/2025
Payrails is a leading payment orchestration platform for Enterprise eCommerce players, where I manage product management, product design and merchant onboarding experience, with +10 employees.
• Expanded into 3-6-12 months product roadmaps (from 1 month product roadmap when I started), defining product strategy and vision.
• Introduced a Product Delivery Process in order to increase velocity and track inefficiencies.
• Started a merchant onboarding playbook from scratch to increase customer satisfaction and time to first transaction.

qwist Operations
Chief Operating Officer
7/2022 - 1/2024
• Managed Product & Tech teams, consisting of 60 employees across 4 offices, to secure delivery of Products while having reduced the cost base by 30%.
• Managed key Strategic Partnerships in MENA to jointly deliver on new Open Banking Use Cases in the region, with an impact of additional +20% in revenues in 2022.
• Drove Fundraising & Investor Relationships, having secured funding in +10 MEur in 2022.
• Responsible for the exit of the business to Finch Capital with Closing in November 2023.

Qwist Corporate Strategy & Development
Chief Strategy Officer
7/2021 - 6/2022
Strategy, Finance & Corporate Development Practices Lead, managing a team of 6, bundling organic and inorganic growth strategy as well as, leading Fundraising & Investor Relationships, having achieved a revenue increase of 30% YoY.

Qwist Corporate Strategy & Development
Managing Director
2/2019 - 6/2021
Iberia Business entry Strategy, crystallized with the acquisition of MyValue Solution in 2021
● achieved an inorganic group revenue uplift of 20%.

Zurich Santander Insurance America Management Consulting
Chief Digital Officer
3/2018 - 2/2019
Regional Digital Leader for Bancassurance established in 5 Markets: Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile & Uruguay. Transformation Leader in both incremental and disruptive innovation, with focus on New Digital Business, Digital Product, Digital Sales & Data, overachieved goals by 200% in key markets.

sumofuturo Start-Up
Chief Executive Officer
4/2017 - 1/2018
sumofuturo is a financial wellbeing digital platform for employees, managed the company P&L in the seed stage to validate product market fit.

BBVA Start-Up
CEO, Nimble Payments
3/2015 - 4/2017
New Strategy & Go To Market Definition to validate hypothesis on early stage payments fintech launch under BBVA Venture Builder (managed a team of 25 employees).

BBVA Start-Up
Board Member, Holvi
3/2015 - 9/2016
Following BBVA 100% acquisition of Holvi, Board Member for the 1-year transition following Closing. Acted as hinge between Corporate Business & Growth in the fintech business.
● Venture Creation, New Digital Businesses March 2015 – September 2016 In-house BBVA Venture Builder, launched in short cycles new Fintech ventures into the market. During the different cycles, achieved seed funding for 4 new ventures (+10 MEur in total).

izettle Sales
Managing Director, Spain
12/2012 - 12/2014
Go to market definition, managed a +5 team with multi-channel sales strategy with key partners such as Banco Santander, which after 12 months became the biggest global sales channel.