Over 20 years of international business development, startup and management experience in payments and transaction processing.
Prior to joining Xtrategies he was a payments strategy consultant in Southern Europe, advising technology and service providers. As VP Southern Europe for Transaction Network Services (TNS), he built a point-of-sale network servicesbusiness in Spain for the card payments and prepaid wireless markets.
Earlier he established TNS Japan. His career in electronic transactions began at lottery systems operator GTECH, first managing projects in Latin America, Canada, Europe and Asia before establishing regional support operations in Singapore and later heading sales and operations in Southern Europe.
Core competencies include: international business strategy; project management; operational efficiency; technology solutions for card issuing and acquiring; debit program management; EMV and mobile banking.