Brooklyn, New York, United States
Fintech / RegTech product leader with 20 years experience across payments, lending, compliance, and risk. Currently building embedded payment compliance, risk and automated decisioning capabilities for a leading PropTech SaaS/AI platform. Previously led MoneyGram’s global risk & compliance platform product team - owning AML, fraud, sanctions, and risk-decisioning systems. Drove major automation and fraud-detection improvements, enabling new revenue and product experiences. Highlights include: • Launching the first compliant global stablecoin cash on/off ramps • Launching embedded consumer bank accounts with seamless onboarding and risk controls • Achieving 99% automation of sanctions alert via automated data collection and re-screening flow • Delivering a seven-figure revenue uplift through improved fraud modeling and decisioning accuracy Prior experience includes leading B2B SaaS/API products in BSA/AML and FinCrime, using large-scale data engineering, machine learning, and search technologies to automate risk decisioning and reduce manual operational load for global banking customers. Early career building lending and credit-marketplace products, including Australia’s first multi-lender marketplace - featuring real-time credit scoring and automated “chance of approval” and suitability + value ratings. Core Strengths • AI-driven fraud prevention & AML auto-decisioning • Payments risk & compliance automation • Lending marketplace product development • Product strategy, execution & organizational scaling • Cross-functional leadership (Risk, Product, Data, Eng, Ops, Legal) • P&L ownership & business unit creation • Data-driven optimization & ML-enabled workflows • New product development & GTM execution • Executive communication & industry commentary • Regulatory & operational compliance • Culture building, mentorship & high-performance teams
Expansion of responsibility to include Retail (physical network) product team, building B2B tools to save MoneyGram agents time and effort to growing their business, while expanding and optimizing the payment experience for consumers.
Led MoneyGram’s global risk & compliance platform product team - owning AML, fraud, sanctions, and risk-decisioning systems. Drove major automation and fraud-detection improvements, enabling new revenue and product experiences. Highlights include: • Launching the first compliant global stablecoin cash on/off ramps • Launching embedded consumer bank accounts with seamless onboarding and risk controls • Achieving 99% automation of sanctions alert via automated data collection and re-screening flow • Delivering a seven-figure revenue uplift through improved fraud modeling and decisioning accuracy
Partnered with CEO and leadership team to refine and execute on strategy to evolve customer experience and business model, launching two market-first products driving both positive user outcomes and incremental ARPU via servicing of unmet user needs - including Australia’s first multi-lender marketplace, featuring real-time credit scoring and automated “chance of approval” and suitability + value ratings. note: (e) denotes US Equivalent title
Designed, built and managed a new business unit to bring product data collection, management and analysis in-house, growing cross functional team from 0 to 10+ (PM, analysts and engineers). Highlights: * Exceeded coverage, currency and quality metrics vs existing provider ahead of schedule, enabling additional 3 months of cost saving * Evolved data model, enabling proprietary differentiated data, including launching world-first, live, personalized mortgage ratings system ("RateCity Real Time Ratings") note: (e) denotes US Equivalent title
Building unified data solution for AML/FinCrime investigations teams, bringing together vast amounts of external data to detect and act on risk at scale. Highlights: * Identified and executed on steps needed to scale core search technology into API-first customer workflows, establishing and improving key metrics around search speed (10x faster), matching false positives (50%+ reduction) and data coverage (4x increase)
Partnered with the founding team to launch initial SaaS offering, refine strategy, and build product, engineering and data teams. Highlights: * Grew and managed team of 5 analysts, establishing and improving metrics (accuracy 50%+ improvement, efficiency 3x improvement)