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Founder & CEO

Shift4 Europe (formerly Finaro)

Director Of Sales & Business Development

• Leading the technical engagement with customers and partners to ensure that the functionality, performance, services, and technical infrastructure are clearly understood and executed.
• Identify & build customized solutions for strategic customers and managing their delivery
• Actively involved in analysis, solution design, client communication, and implementation
• Close collaboration with different internal teams (such as Product, R&D, sales, marketing, operations & support)

Solution Architect

Hey-CPA

Hey-CPA offers a CPA as-a-service platform, automating Bookkeeping work.
• As a CTO I was responsible for all technology aspects: software development, specification, design, architecture, infrastructure, and implementation.
• Built the code and the product from the ground up to be scalable and user-friendly.
• Product presentation, Sales & Recruitment of new businesses.
• Engaging customers, to continuously collect feedback and improve the product.

Co-founder & CTO

Isracard

• Project leader and coordinator, achieving success through collaboration with multiple departments, including R&D, Product Managers, Sales & Marketing.
• Responsible for Business Development, partner success, and Go-to-Market strategy.
• Maintaining positive relationships with business partners and customers to ensure adoption success.

Technology Project Leader (Product Owner)

Wix.com

• Working with the most cutting edge methodologies and technologies to develop ground-breaking web platforms, optimized for performance and scale - Wix platform - which is used by millions of people around the globe every day to build websites. 
• Understand and leverage customers business challenges to expand revenue and increase usage rate.
• Worked in a small team, that follows agile work methods and use continuous integration/deployment methodologies to run quickly as a startup while maintaining the high-end quality of the product.

Web Developer at Wix.com

Touche

• Work in a cross-functional team to deliver a complete user experience.
• Development of full projects, client and server-side - from specification and UI to the stage deployment on the servers.
• Expert in JavaScript and Web development.
• Presented the company and its technology at conventions and trade shows all over the world.

Full Stack Developer

ClickSoftware

• Helped enterprises and SMBs solve workforce management obstacles using ClickSoftware products
• Worked closely with customers and partners, onsite and remotely, to ensure the successful launch of new products.

Solution Specialist

Ness Technologies

Software Development Instructor

RE4MA Group SL

Direct Retail in shopping centers
• Extensive experience in frontal sales, Retail activities, brands development.
• Managed the sales organization (120 employees) in 27 locations globally.
• Responsibility for the Go-To-Market strategy and sales plan.

Sales and Product Line Manager

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Alan Brian Dardic

Fintech executive with 20+ years in payments and e-commerce, specialized in operational scaling, international expansion, and building reliable payment infrastructure across LATAM and Europe. 

Proven track record leading cross-functional teams across operations, compliance, product delivery and strategic partnerships, with strong focus on KPIs, automation, risk controls, and process excellence. Former PayPal, PagSeguro International and Shift4 employee; currently COO at Gowd.

Fernando Vazquez

🚨 BREAKING: PayPal is now officially on the acquisition radar. Reports confirm the fintech pioneer has drawn unsolicited takeover interest after its stock slumped and competition heated up. 

Here are 3 GIANTS most talked about as potential suitors and why each one makes sense (or doesn’t):

💥 1) JPMorganChase 
 
With massive merchant reach but no true consumer wallet, JPM is the textbook strategic buyer. Buy PayPal + integrate into Chase and they instantly rival Alipay/WeChat Pay globally. 

📈 2) Fiserv 

A backend titan ready for a consumer brand makeover. Add PayPal’s 430m+ users and Venmo, and Fiserv instantly becomes a vertical force that could bypass banks entirely. 

🛒 3) Amazon 

Regulatory challenges are real but buying PayPal gives Amazon a “Buy Now” button on every online store in the world. Instant e-commerce dominance. 

💡 My take?

PayPal still has HUGE strategic value Venmo, BNPL, massive network effects and a path to recovery if it executes. And as a former PayPal employee I will always root for them.

But in a world of Apple Pay, Google, Stripe, and hyper-scaled fintech, you can never rule out a takeover. 🔥

Whether it stays independent or becomes part of something bigger, one thing is clear:

 ➡️ The payments landscape just got a LOT more interesting. 🚀

👉 Engage with this post: What do YOU think?

 🔹 Will PayPal turn it around?
 🔹 Or should a giant buy now before it’s too late?

 Comment below 👇

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Fernando Estevez Vazquez

From March 1st, I’ll be open to new opportunities.

Change has always been a constant in my life. Moving countries. Roles, learning. Building from scratch. Scaling. Transforming.

My payments journey started 20 years ago at PayPal, and I didn't look back.

Since then, I’ve worked across corporate, startups, and scale-ups living and working in Dublin, Berlin, and now Lisbon.

I’ve led and contributed across:

• Support
• Fraud prevention
• Account management
• Country management
• Sales management
• Payments
• Operations
• International expansion
• Partnerships
• Product

That gives me a 360º view of the payments ecosystem with a strong multicultural perspective and understanding of industry trends and specially in Latin America and Europe.

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵, 𝗜’𝗺 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲 such as:

👉 Head of Payments
👉 Payments Relationship Management
👉 LATAM GTM / Expansion Lead
👉 Head of Operations

I will continue teaching payment methods in Spanish and can provide fractional Payment Manager services when relevant & possible but my 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 / 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

If you know of a company that could benefit from someone like me I’d love to connect.

PS: I hope you enjoy my European Odyssey Comic :) ...

never plan too much because...

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗽.

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