Steve Beecroft 💳 Card/Mobile Payments, NED, Advisor, Investor

Currently open to new and exciting contact or interim Product Development and Deployment assignments particularly in Financial Services and FinTech. An internationally experienced Business and Product Leader with over 35 years in product development, leadership and software engineering across FinTech, Transport, Local Authorities, Central Government, Football Clubs and Universities for Start-ups, Scale-ups (with unicorn ambitions), SMEs, and larger global organisations.Suited to CPO / SVP roles within any sized organization. An expert product leader who builds high performing SaaS product design, development, delivery and management teams, driving agility, empowering product and process ownership, who has built highly performant and scalable global eCommerce, B2B, SAAS systems. Experienced leader of cross-functional areas. Comfortable with international travel to engage and collaborate with customers and partners. An expert at managing distributed teams across geographies and how to lead others to work effectively remotely. A natural leader able to easily bridge the gap between technology and commercial stakeholders.KEY EXECUTIVE SKILLS• Product development leadership • Distributed team management • Customer engagement• Software engineering leadership • Cultural engagement • Budget ownership• Product portfolio management • Recruitment & retention • Mergers & Acquisition• Product delivery and support • Talent management • Functional restructuring • Project & program management • Change management • Agile & waterfall methodologies• Transformation Leadership • Consolidation and OptimisationPrevious clients/partners include Amex, Visa, Apple Pay, Google Wallet, Lloyds Bank, TSB, Worldpay, Bain Capital, Nets, Post Office, Tescos Bank, Manchester City FC. Brighton and Hove Albion FC, BankInter (Santander), DfT, TfL, ONS, Office for Deputy Prime Minister, Pontins, PayPoint, Finstar, Docomo Digital (Bango) and Aevi. My experience includes EMV, Contactless. Tokenization, NFC, Chip & PIN, eCommerce, PSD/PSD2/SCA/3DS mCommerce, Closed Loop Cashless, Pre-paid, Access Control, Cash Collection, Loyalty, Membership, Concessions, Parking, Mass Transit, Mobile payment apps, and Multi-application Smartcards .Geographically I have delivered products in US, Canada, UK, Spain, France, Finland, Latvia, Australia, and Singapore. Managing multiple teams across Asia, Eastern Europe, UK, US, France and Australia. To contact me, send a Linked-In message or email me directly on [email protected]