Greater Sydney Area
Divya has a decade’s experience in end-to-end payments, cards and loyalty product management, strategy, new product development, partnerships and innovation. She has led varied, large-scale transformational projects through human-centred design and business case to market launch, managing cross-functional project teams. Divya joined Beem It in 2018 as Head of Strategy & Partnerships from Westpac, where her role was working as Senior Manager, Payments Strategy. Divya has demonstrated high performance across diverse roles in product, strategy, communications, digital, strategic partnerships management and project roles. She supplemented her broad experience with an MBA Exchange at New York University's Stern School of Business from in 2016, focusing on digital strategy, tech innovation strategy and game theory.
Leading strategy, product development, CVP and commercial partnerships for consumer B2C digital payments and wallet products and experiences
- Westpac product lead for establishing payments fintech Beem, a joint venture with Westpac NAB and CBA: industry collaboration, commercial and product strategy and roadmap development, research and analysis, Westpac internal M&A coordination, JV initial org design and transition. - Led concept development, pilot and commercial market launch of Westpac PayWear, the first major bank wearable payment solution in Australia. - Developed the bank's consumer payments strategy, roadmap, prioritised initiatives pipeline, and strategy papers for GM, Exec and CEO. - Westpac lead on AusPayNet industry initiatives, including Opal contactless ticketing trial and development of national framework for open-loop transit. - Innovation and partnerships with payment schemes, OEMs, third party apps.
Study focus: digital strategy, tech innovation strategy, game theory