Mentor Profile

Ben Smith

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CCO | CRO | BaaS | Fintech | Strategy

About Ben

Proven successful senior executive with over 20 years’ experience growing start-ups, scale-ups and multinational organisations across the UK and APAC, with particular focus on the financial services and fintech sectors.

Entrepreneurial by nature with robust disciplines around data analysis, forecasting and budgeting as well as the creation and development of business processes and commercial KPIs to ensure scalable and repeatable growth.

Deep domain experience across BaaS, embedded finance, payments and FX, successfully leading a number of regional expansions and new market launches.

Country

Australia

City

Sydney

Areas of Expertise:

B2BBudgeting & ForecastingBusiness DevelopmentBusiness Model InnovationFinanceManagementPartnerships & AlliancesPaymentRegulation/ComplianceSalesStartupStrategyTeambuilding

Amazon Web Services
Stripe
HubSpot
KHQ Lawyers
Facet5
Pitcher Partners
FCX
DiUS
ASX
Airwallex