Piotr Pietrzak
Director, FinTech Products Opera
Piotr has connected many dots across multinational projects in various business verticals for retail, small and medium enterprises, and corporates. Built professional expertise in financial services from bottom-up, he reads between the lines of source codes and knows how to develop digital products and services from scratch.
His initial career in Moscow included building web-based sales channels for insurance products for Russian market. After moving back to Europe, he has supported the deployment of mobile banking solutions focusing on retail payments. Worked with local and global payment providers to ensure the innovative payment trends continue to evolve.
Worked on local initiatives in Poland, to move later on to Germany, Netherlands and Great Britain. Had a short but intensive project with mobile banking in the Philippines, focusing on discovering mobile behaviours of active users. Working across different geographic regions gave him an experience in balancing between global corporate effectiveness and local responsiveness to clients needs.
Lead projects as Project and Product Manager, from initiation phase and development to market launch. Currently as Director for fintech products is responsible for building financial services based on open banking solutions with one of the major tech companies.
Outside work, Piotr covers business developments that have an impact on payments businesses, overall financial services and entrepreneurship in Europe.
