Flexport

Business Development

Forward Advances

Built and scaled a venture backed B2B FinTech lender. Delivered 150% QoQ growth for over two years. Raised £15M in debt & equity. Reported to the board of a listed entity.

Venture CEO

Forward Partners

Sat on the leadership team of an early stage investor.

Managing Director

Earnt.It

Bootstrapped and launched a consumer FinTech enabling early wage access.

Founder

PayPal

Led a $10b card product and launched new lending businesses through strategic partnerships.

Product, Business Development and GTM

Scaled Buy Now Pay Later and Revenue-Based Financing products to a £2b originations run rate.

Head of Operations

HSBC

Program Manager

Bank of America

Head of Projects

British Army

IT and Telecommunications Engineer

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I've built and scaled fast-growing FinTech products as a founder and operator.

- Scaled PayPal’s Buy Now Pay Later and Merchant Lending business in the UK to a £2B annual originations run rate.
- Bootstrapped a consumer FinTech, enabling customers to access wages early.
- Founded and scaled a venture-backed FinTech, providing revenue-based financing to digital businesses.

I’ve developed expertise in early product validation, go-to-market strategy, growth, and operations.

Along the way, I've just been following my interests and solving problems for customers.

Oh, and I love riding motorbikes and climbing mountains.

Hasam Silva

Excited to announce the launch of The Trade Leaders Table.

This is a small, invite-only dinner exclusively for CEOs and CFOs of businesses over $100M in revenue who are focused on simplifying global trade in 2026.

It’s two hours, under the Chatham House Rule, focused purely on knowledge exchange.

You’ll be joined by other business leaders and a specialised group of experts in customs, freight, and finance.

The goal is simple: share the practical knowledge needed to simplify global trade in 2026.

The first date is on 15 January 2026.

#globaltrade #supplychain #customs #workingcapital #fintech

FinTech GTM & Growth | Scaling Flexport Capital in EMEA

Lloyds Banking Group

My team and I are responsible for the distribution of our embedded finance solution and providing expert advice to our clients about how best to implement the Lloyds Cardnet solutions.

Head of Embedded Finance Product and Sales Engineering, Merchant Services

My team and I are responsible for the go to market strategy and launch activities for PayPal’s global Partner and SMB solutions

Director, GTM, Global Partner and SMB Solutions

I was responsible for all go to market strategies and launch activities for PayPal’s implementation and integration solutions.

Director, Product Marketing, Merchant Payment Solutions

I manage a team of pre-sales and integration engineers that are responsible for providing a white glove technical consultancy to all the PayPal UK enterprise merchants

Director, Global Professional Services, UK Enterprise

I work with the largest and most complex merchants in the UK and Germany, helping them implement PayPal so they can provide the best mobile and in store journey.  I specialise in mobile fuel payments and other in store rich mobile experiences, ensuring that merchant and customer problems are solved to build value in the merchant business.

Head of Enterprise Engagement

My team and I were responsible for delivering solutions with our Strategic and Mobile Commerce merchants, these included the Shell Fill Up and Go and Sainsbury's Chop Chop apps.  We worked closely with our merchants and partners to ensure the consumer and merchant have the best solution.

Head of Integration Architecture

I launched a series of solutions that allow PayPal to move into the High Street, these solutions have allowed consumers to use there PayPal wallet to pay for goods and services in store.  The experiences have included face to face payment, pay at table and order ahead for collection in store

Senior Product Manager, EMEA Omni Channel Solutions

S1 Corporation

I am responsible for building relationships with key partners to ensure that both parties work well together with joint customers.

Partner Manager

I will be focusing on providing payments solutions to European Tier 1 retailers and processors.

Solution Consultant

The Logic Group

I specialised in working with customers to understand their business and technical requirements around payments and loyalty, so that I could design a solution architecture that meets those needs from both a technical and commercial point of view.

Pre-Sales Consultant

I headed up the team that was responsible for The Logic Group's Point of Interaction solutions, which include our EMV based Chip and PIN offering as well as other value added services.  These value added services include eGift, eTop-up, Tax Free Shopping, DCC and multie currency.  In addition I am responsible for the Contactless Payments and PCI DSS company strategic programmes.

Product Marketing Manager

Thales e-Transactions Ltd

Responsible for managing a range of EFT standalone terminals.

Product Manager

York Sensors Ltd

I managed a team of software engineers developing solutions for a Distrubuted Temperature Sensor

Senior Software Engineer

Lewis Solutions Ltd

I developed automated software solutions for the television industry

Software Engineer

I am a senior professional that can bridge the gap between commercial and technical ensuring your business can give your customers the best payment experience.  I have worked on many new solutions in the payments arena over the last 25 years.

Specialties: Mobile Payments, eCommerce, OmniChannel, EMV, PCI DSS, Point to Point Encryption, Tokenisation, Encryption, Contactless, Loyalty

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