Now booking select 2026 engagements
Regulated Fintech & Payments Platform Leadership
I partner with product and executive teams to make clear calls on what to ship next across payments, risk/compliance, platform modernization, and AI productization. Then operationalize delivery with controls that hold up in production.
5,000+
Professionals Reached
70+
Speaking Sessions
15+
Global Markets Reached
Metrics reflect prior sessions delivered across product leadership, platforms, and regulated AI education.
Speaker overview
I’ve spent most of my career where software, money, and operations intersect—shipping regulated platforms and high-stakes workflows.
My talks are designed for leaders who already know the stakes and want a grounded way to decide what to do next. Less “future of everything.” More “what should we do in the next 12–24 months given our constraints.”
"Operator-first, systems thinking. No hype."
Current role
Founder, Orlaya
Previous
Product Leader, PayPal
Focus areas
FinTech, payments, onboarding, risk, platforms
Work style
Operator-first, systems thinking. No hype.
Talks are for
Execs who need to decide what to do next. Not just be inspired.
Formats
Pick the format based on what you actually need: clarity, alignment, or an execution plan your teams can run next week.
What they get
- A decision framework leaders can reuse
- The failure modes that kill regulated velocity
- What 'safe to ship' looks like in the real world
Best For
Conferences, leadership offsites, company all-hands
What they get
- Clear, non-performative answers to AI/Platform questions
- Practical tradeoffs (risk, ops, velocity)
- Grounded examples without leaking confidential internals
Best For
Fintech + platform summits, executive roundtables
What they get
- Decision-ready framing (tradeoffs + constraints)
- What to measure and report to avoid AI theater
- A prioritized next-steps memo (optional add-on)
Best For
C-suite/board education, PE/VC portfolio leadership sessions
What they get
- A shared definition of 'safe to ship'
- A scorecard + cadence to restore predictability
- A sequenced plan tied to measurable outcomes
Best For
Cross-functional teams (Product + Eng + Risk/Legal + Ops)
Keynote & Panel Topics
Key Takeaways
- The Compliance Wall and how to create 'safe experimentation' instead of gridlock
- The Platform Trap: modernization that earns its keep (milestones tied to velocity + reliability)
- A shared language for Product, Engineering, Risk/Legal, and Ops
- The minimum operating system: scorecard, cadence, governance
Ideal Audience
Product leadership offsites, fintech conferences, platform + risk summits
Formats
Key Takeaways
- Where agentic workflows help in payments, risk, onboarding, and support—and where rules/humans still win
- Guardrails that matter: audit trails, rollback paths, human-in-the-loop, ownership
- Practical criteria for choosing first (or next) workflows
- What ‘safe to ship’ looks like when outcomes are uncertain
Ideal Audience
Fintech product teams, executive strategy sessions, applied AI leadership audiences
Formats
Key Takeaways
- How to frame AI in terms boards actually care about (risk, margin, time-to-value)
- Avoiding both under- and over-promising on timelines and impact
- What to measure and report when outcomes are still uncertain
- Using small, well-designed pilots to buy time and credibility
Ideal Audience
Board retreats, C-suite summits, PE/VC portfolio leadership sessions
Formats
Key Takeaways
- Why systems (not features) determine outcomes in regulated environments
- How platforms, APIs, and teams interact with AI initiatives
- Common failure modes when retrofitting AI onto legacy systems
- How to keep architecture, risk, and product aligned on what to ship and when
Ideal Audience
SaaS/platform conferences, internal product + architecture summits
Formats
Workshop moments
Keynote on API strategy for digital transformation
Workshop on governance model and design
Group picture after a successful full day workshop for product and technology leaders
Speaking inquiry
Limited availability for 2026 executive and product-focused events. Share context and constraints and I'll respond with fit and next steps.
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Speaking Inquiry