Stoyan Kenderov
About Stoyan Kenderov
25 years of demonstrated success building new products and transforming organizations into customer obsessed teams that drive growth and profitability in regulated and unregulated industries: Fintech, Lending, Payments, Credit cards, Personal Finance, Small Business SaaS, Advertising, Mobile Operators, Telecommunications; deep experience across Consumers, SMBs and Fortune 1000 Enterprise sectors. Consistently scaled businesses across multiple stages: from early-stage & pre-product-market-fit, to growth acceleration and expansion of existing, billion dollar businesses all the way to business transformation at large multinational corporations. Skilled in leading product and technology, marketing and sales, data science, risk, compliance, business development and customer success organizations to reimagine products, customer experience, go-to-market capabilities and operating models through focus on customer delight, engagement and top-line growth with profit margin expansion. Global product and revenue operating experience across the US, Europe and South East Asia. Specific experience includes: ▶ Payments and financial services for enterprises, small businesses, and consumers (Intuit TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, Quicken, LendingClub, Amdocs, Plastiq) ▶ Peer-to-peer and marketplace lending and alternative asset class investments (LendingClub) ▶ Credit/debit/prepaid card issuance, co-branded partnerships, and payments processing (Intuit, Quicken VISA card, Mint prepaid card, Plastiq Short Term Financing) ▶ Mobile advertising platforms (Pudding Media, Amdocs) ▶ IPTV, triple-play services (Amdocs) ▶ Enterprise billing, CRM, and service provisioning (Amdocs, EUnet, Xlink) ▶ Mobile and telecom data platforms (XACCT, Amdocs) ▶ Internet service providers (Xlink, EUnet, KPNQwest) ▶ Communications protocols, multicasting and scalable distributed database systems (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) I actively invest and mentor startup teams and track over 1500 startups in the FinTech space. I’ve served on the Strategic Leadership Committee of the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA), the ETA Mobile Payments Council, the Bulgaria Innovation Hub and Village Capital among others.