AliaswirePresident
Dec. 2018 - May. 2023Greater Boston AreaRecruited to Aliaswire, a payments technology provider, by the Founder/CEO to plan and implement new product development and corporate growth strategy to prepare the business for acquisition. Succeeded the Founder/CEO in 2019 to become responsible for the P&L of the existing business while designing and launching new payment technology products. Achievements and Primary Areas of Responsibilities • Managing the P&L – responsible for managing the P&L, maintaining a sales forecast and budget and interacting with Board members and Advisors. • Launched two new products - responsible for product architecture, product management, market development and sales of PayVus® a combined issuing and acquiring product that provides working capital for small businesses combined with lower priced merchant services, and TranCentives® an incentive-based tender-type steering product to help merchants lower Interchange costs. • Redesigned and re-staffed the organization – upgraded engineering, implementation, support, product management, information security and quality control teams
• Intellectual Property Management ¬– managing the office-action and USPTO processes to obtain issuance of key corporate IP. Developing a strategy to maximize the value of core patents.
• ISO Management – responsible for establishing and maintaining our ISO registration with sponsoring banks • ODFI Management - responsible for establishing and maintaining ODFI relationships with sponsoring banks. • Issuing Bank sponsorship - responsible for establishing and maintaining card issuing sponsorships in US and Canada including establishing and managing KYC, AML and OFAC policies and procedures.