Paul Beukers

CCO & Co-Founder at Katanox

New York, New York, United States

About

Experience

  • Chief Commercial Officer & Co-Founder at Katanox
    Jan 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

    We are travel's growth engine, unifying direct distribution and financial infrastructure for the hospitality industry. Accommodation suppliers and buyers can manage direct contracting, connectivity, payments and reconciliation in one platform. Katanox simplifies and integrates all aspects of hospitality business operations to eliminate obstacles by providing a cohesive and efficient engine to drive growth in the travel industry.

  • Adyen (5 yrs 3 mos)
    • Product Lead - Insights
      Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Build our Insights product from the ground up. Insights will make merchants more autonomous when it comes to data analyses, and drive merchant growth through the power of data. We were a cross-functional team that consisted of backend, frontend & data engineers, product designers, and a UX writer - this enabled us to build the ultimate merchant experience.

    • Product Manager - Global Acquiring
      Mar 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

      In this role I was responsible for the overall strategy, productization, optimization and implementation of the external acquirers/banks on our platform.

    • Enterprise Account Manager
      Nov 2016 - Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      My responsibilities: Strategic Consultation: Proactively assess, clarify, and validate merchant needs on an ongoing basis. Act as the human dimension of Adyen’s product, delivering expertise, education, and guidance to merchants as they craft and execute on a comprehensive, global payments strategy. I was, amongst others, responsible for easyJet, Lufthansa, Coolblue and Patagonia. Data Analysis: Worked as a part-time data analyst to bridge the gap between Account Management and the Data team. Assisted the global Account Management team in leveraging data by creating models and dashboards to help their merchants grow. Looker, PostgreSQL, and Spark helped me with this data quest.

  • Working Student at Roland Berger
    Jul 2015 - Nov 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Integrand (1 yr)
    • Head of Events
      Sep 2015 - Jan 2016 · 5 mos

      As the head of Events I was responsible for the Start-Up Tour in Amsterdam. After a previous, and very successful first edition, we had decided to make this a bi-annual event. Integrands goal is to give students a glimpse in the world of start-ups. The companies who joined the Start-Up Tour created their own case, based on the issues the company might had. For more information: www.integrand.nl/startuptour

    • Board Member/Operations Manager
      Feb 2015 - Sep 2015 · 8 mos

      Integrand is a student foundation that focuses on bringing students in touch with companies. It does this by organizing several events during the year and by providing students and companies with an internship mediation service. Currently Integrand is the largest academic internship mediator in the Netherlands. I was member of the Operations team and therefore responsible for process optimization and internal operations.