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Abhishek P.AP

Abhishek P.

FinTech : Consultant. Specialist. Product Manager.

$1,200/day
Dubai, AE
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Abhishek

Payments Expert: Navigating the Complex Fintech Landscape

As a seasoned FinTech veteran with over a decade of experience, I have honed my expertise across diverse verticals, including digital banking, wealth management, retail/online payments, and cross-border settlements. My professional journey has taken me across six countries - the USA, UAE, UK, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Taiwan - where I have collaborated with high-growth startups and Fortune 500 companies, building and leading high-performance teams to amplify growth in next-gen wallet and cross-border platforms (Beam Wallet, EMQ, Almond and so on...). This has helped the startup in raising rounds of funding (A->C).

My skillset encompasses hands-on experience in product strategy, data analysis, automation, testing, integrations, and product development. I excel at overseeing the entire product and solution development lifecycle, defining roadmaps that align with the organization's goals and long-term vision. Nurturing trusted relationships with clients, teams, and partners is a key strength of mine.

I thrive in navigating the operational complexities of diverse organizations and have a proven track record of implementing innovative products globally. Problem-solving is my forte, and I take pride in delivering original solutions. Additionally, I enjoy building, leading, and coaching teams to ensure the smooth execution of projects and adherence to quality standards.

Let's connect and explore how I can leverage my extensive experience to contribute to your FinTech initiatives. I can help and support with the following:

1. Understanding blockchain and crypto regulations in various countries
2. Go-to-market for various FinTech vertical launches : acquiring, lending, issuing, prepaid/virtual cards, cross-border/fx etc. in GCC/Middle-East and South East Asia
3. How to setup product and product management practises
4. How to setup retail and corporate banks from scratch - specially digital and neo-banking setups
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Dubai (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Almond Fintech
    Senior Product Manager
    December 2022 - Today (3 years and 6 months)
    Dubai - United Arab Emirates
    A web3 company breaking through barriers of traditional fiat-based for cross border settlements.
    - Working cross-functionally with a dynamic and experienced team of blockchain engineers, product owners and industry experts to bring our innovative settlement engine into market as a competitor to traditional payment rails
    - Working towards developing an agnostic platform that allows for cross-border settlements to take place via various triggers
    - Prototyping new ideas and testing solutions whilst keeping in mind regulatory and compliance boundaries
  • EMQ Inc.
    Global Head of Solution Delivery
    January 2021 - December 2022 (1 year and 11 months)
    Taiwan, China
    Lead the Solution Delivery team to onboard partners on both pay-in and pay out side. Formulated delivery guidelines (template) for the entire team and created an articulate process for onboarding customers. Led a team of six individual contributors. Additional R&R:
    - Wore an additional hat as the Senior PM for an ancillary product referred internally as ECPP or EMQ Connect Partner Portal. This was a product built from 0 to 1 to initiate transfers, follow-up and view transfer status via one single interface. Supported small-to-medium sized customers to onboard quickly to EMQ provided rails and transition onto API products once development work is complete.
    - Served as an interim PM for Collections product referred as EMQ EF or Embedded Finance product built to collect funds in PHP and disburse in SGP. Launched an alpha build in less than 3 months with a distributed team in Sri Lanka.
  • Synpulse Management Consulting
    Management Consultant
    July 2019 - July 2020 (1 year)
    Hong Kong
    Served as the lead technical project manager for Crealogix digital banking solution to be implemented in the largest bank in SEA (based out of Thailand). Project implementation and solution delivery included: 1. Analysis and Design phase 2. Solution mapping 3. Agile based delivery (4 sprints, 3 mini-QA's and 1 major QA) 4. Go-live Thereby combining waterfall + agile system for various stages of the project.

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Education

  • Master of Science
    HKUST SENG MSc BDT Program
    2019
    Master of Science - MS, Big Data Technology
  • Master of Business Administration
    Lancaster University
    2013
    Master of Business Administration (MBA), Strategy & Risk Management

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