Sarah Clark

Proven product and general management executive with a strong track record for leading in fast paced environments on the bleeding edge of innovation. I have experience leading SAAS B2B and B2B2C businesses through periods of rapid growth including leadership over product strategy and roadmap, product development, goto-market strategy, business development, revenue growth, strategic partnerships, marketing and customer success. I am an inherently creative individual and am passionate about bringing new products to market that do good in the world. I lead using lean frameworks and the fundamental pillars of innovation such as empowering teams and individuals, setting clear measurable objectives, testing and learning, transparency of decision making, a relentless focus on value, and crafting a clear differentiated market position. I am product person as my main discipline and passion. I have been a lifelong learner of best in class frameworks for driving product innovation success and I am highly skilled at driving vision and strategy as well as execution excellence. I am comfortable being a change maker and have helped numerous teams evolve to agile processes that meet the needs of the organization balancing predictability and quality with speed and the must have of continuously testing and learning. In recent years I led an identity verification business from inception to becoming a global market leader. After creating significant growth and a dominant market position and managing a team growing to over 100 globally, I exited to get experience more broadly in the field of digital identity, and to do that I started my own consultancy. Most recently I led digital identity at Mastercard where my team brought to market a new network for Mastercard, the ID Network, a globally interoperable privacy preserving digital ID network leveraging the latest standards in identity and decentralization. I am an experienced public and keynote speaker and I've spoken at Money2020 US and EU, Mobile World Congress, Fintech Meetup, and numerous other events globally as well as to many podcasts and publications. In 2022 I was named one of ten Fintech Power 50 individual visionaries due to extensive work in the fintech arena. Most recently I took a hiatus to accomplish a number of key personal goals - rainforest preservation and helping dogs on death row in shelters find homes. I am currently looking for a product leadership role in the fintech, AI, web3, digital identity or platform as a service areas where the mission is to do notable good in the world.