C-level product leader for the AI era
I am a C-level product leader with 18 years across SaaS, fintech, payments and conversational AI. I set the product strategy, shape the architecture with engineering and build working prototypes with AI myself, so decisions rest on real software instead of slides. Founder and Managing Director of Payshen (formerly Meshtally), former Head of Product at Webio, acquired by Aryza in 2025.
Experience
From a pre-launch mobile app to enterprise portfolios and an acquisition. Strategy, teams, architecture and delivery, most of it in regulated and security-sensitive markets.
Full backgroundNow
Payshen (formerly Meshtally), Dubai
Lead the company and own product strategy, architecture and roadmap for a white-label payment orchestration platform: one API for many payment providers, routing to the provider most likely to approve each payment, retries only when they are safe and a recorded reason for every decision. Selected for the Antler Dubai residency and as an Alpha startup at Web Summit Qatar 2026.
2023 - 2025
Webio (Ireland), acquired by Aryza
Led the product function for a conversational AI platform used by Tier 1 enterprises in collections and payments. Owned the roadmap, product and QA governance and the ISO/IEC 27001-certified operating environment. Helped build the product foundation behind the acquisition of Webio by Aryza in 2025.
2021 - 2022
Japan Tobacco International (Geneva)
Defined a unified data visualization strategy for dashboards and analytics across departments, and worked on Microsoft HoloLens and augmented reality prototypes for industrial use cases.
2018 - 2021
Crossover for Work (ESW Capital)
Led UX architecture across 10+ B2B enterprise platforms, including GFI, Aurea, DevFactory and Kayako, in a fully distributed organization spanning 130+ countries. Rebuilt workflows and design systems used by thousands of operators.
2016 - 2018
Skout Deals (Austin, TX)
Took a B2C mobile platform from concept to launch on iOS and Android, and reduced customer churn by more than 32% through UX changes and clearer value delivery.
2017 - 2018
SciNote (Ljubljana)
Led UX for a digital lab notebook that scientific teams use to manage experiments, data integrity and regulated research workflows.
Expertise
AI has shortened the distance between an idea and working software. A product leader who can build, judge architecture and manage risk gets a company there faster and with a smaller team.
Open to CPO, VP Product and Head of Product roles, and to selected advisory work.
Vision, strategy and a roadmap tied to revenue. Building and leading product, design and QA teams, and working directly with founders, boards and investors.
Conversational AI, LLM features and agents with clear evaluation, guardrails and unit economics. I have used AI daily across research, specs, code and testing since it went mainstream.
Working software in days, built with AI-assisted engineering on Next.js, TypeScript, Postgres and Vercel, so teams test with real users before they commit a quarter.
Platform and API design, integrations, data models and payment flows. I read the code, write it when needed and hold my own in architecture reviews.
Orchestration, provider integrations, routing, webhooks and settlement. Fixes I reported or reviewed were adopted by Adyen, Svix, Twilio, Razorpay and Go.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Lead Auditor (CQI/IRCA). Products designed for audits, enterprise procurement and regulated markets from the first sprint.
Building now
Products and open-source tools I lead or build hands-on, and fixes I have contributed to the payment and security libraries other teams depend on.
White-label payment orchestration. One integration for many payment providers, routing to the provider most likely to approve each payment, retries only when they are safe, and a recorded reason for every decision. Formerly Meshtally.
Founder and Managing Director
Local, evidence-based application security assessment engine and Claude Code plugin, written in Go. It keeps a ledger of every control it checked, with redacted evidence, and lists every control it could not decide.
Creator, open source
Paste a payment API response, webhook or postback and see what the provider reported, which events belong together and what looks wrong. Covers card processors, wallets, pay-by-bank and crypto. Nothing leaves the browser.
Creator, open source
Security and correctness fixes merged or adopted by Adyen (Node, Java and .NET SDKs), Svix, Go (x/oauth2), Twilio, Razorpay, PayPal, Standard Webhooks and the Model Context Protocol Go SDK.
Contributor
Writing
Notes on product leadership, AI, payments and building companies. No fluff, no filler.
All essaysGeneric AI features lose ground with every foundation model release. Durable AI products win on one painful workflow, proprietary context, trust and distribution in a single segment. Here is how to score and pick that niche.
A CPO is not a Head of Product with a bigger title. The difference is ownership of outcomes the board cares about. What that means in practice, and how to tell which role your company needs now.
A product leader can now put a working prototype in front of users in days. The long PRD should shrink to a decision memo plus a prototype, with clear rules on what the prototype proves and what it does not.
“AI made building cheap. Knowing what is worth building is now the job.”
Published work
Practical playbooks for founders and product managers. Field-tested frameworks, no fluff.
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