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Shaun Vanderkaap

Originally from Australia but having spent over 10 years in the US across a variety of business development roles,
Shaun specializes in payments & fintech. His skills include launching new regions, building go to market strategies, teams and playbooks.

During his 10 year career in the US, his experiences include:

  • Selling directly to US SMBs
  • Launching an integrated partnership offering for a 400 person global FX company
  • Launching and expanded a new region for a pre-IPO global payments company. Saw that company grow from 700 people to 2500 people during the IPO process which was one of Europes biggest IPOs
  • Landed large, multi million dollar enterprise payments deals (strategic, long duration selling)
  • Served as the Head of Commercial for a Seed, then Series A startup in the US. Took company from 0 to 1. Built out entire go to Market team and function and helped grow the company from pre-MVP to paying clients

Shaun holds a MBA from Deakin along with Bachelor Applied Finance & Bachelor Marketing from UniSA.

Andy Walshe

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Arin Vahanian

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