Ashley Pope

Ashley Pope

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Chief Product Officer - Fintech Payments, Crypto, Trading, Custody | Founder of Max Your AI Business Advisor
London, England, United Kingdom
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  • Xapo Bank
    VP of Product
    Xapo Bank
    Sep 2025 - Current (1 year 1 month)
    Product leader and executive committee member reporting directly to the CEO, with bank-wide P&L ownership at a regulated Bitcoin bank — leading product strategy, growth and Go-To-Market across retail and institutional Crypto and Fintech, and cutting churn 10x while adding $90M AuM. Full product portfolio owner across Digital Assets and TradFi: Trading, Yield, Lending, Savings, Crypto Custody, Wallets, Payments, Debit Cards and Bank Accounts, delivered through the consumer App and Web platform for both B2C retail and B2B institutional clients. What I am driving as VP of Product:
    • Retention & Growth - Reduced customer churn from 5% to 0.5% (10x improvement) and grew platform Assets under Management (AuM) by $90M through product-led grow
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    Founder & CPO
    Mar 2025 - Current (1 year 7 months)
    Founder of an AI-native SaaS platform that puts an expert-level AI Business Advisor in the hands of small and medium-sized businesses — built and shipped with GenAI, LLMs and agentic AI in production. 0-to-1 product, live with paying customers. Max replaces expensive consultants with instant, secure, 24/7 AI guidance. I designed and built the full product and Go-To-Market from scratch, including a suite of AI-powered modules:
    • AI Product Build (0-to-1) - Conceived, built and launched a modular GenAI SaaS product spanning an investor-ready Business Plan Creator, Legal Contract Analyser, AI Candidate Screener, Marketing Strategy Creator, Cash Flow Forecaster and a conversational business-advisor chatbot.
    • Applied GenAI & LLMs - Ar
  • BCB Group
    Chief Product Officer
    BCB Group
    Jan 2024 - Mar 2025 (1 year 3 months)
    Strategy, product development, delivery and global GTM of Crypto and Fiat Payment, Wallet, Custody, Trading and Yield products growing ARR by 300% and volumes by 500% to over $200bn.
    • C-suite member reporting to the CEO, instrumental in shaping and executing the product-led corporate strategy for a 4x regulated Fiat & Crypto financial services group across the UK, EU, and globally. 
    • Defined and delivered the group product vision, mission, execution framework, and growth strategy across 8 product lines encompassing Fiat/Crypto Payments, Trading, Custody and Yield.
    • Led platform growth from seed to Series B readiness, achieving 500% YoY payments growth ($200bn processed in 2024) and 600% YoY electronic trading volume growth
  • BCB Group
    Global Head of Product
    BCB Group
    Jun 2023 - Jan 2024 (8 months)
  • BCB Group
    Head of Product - Banking & Payments
    BCB Group
    Jul 2022 - May 2023 (11 months)
  • BCB Group
    Director of Product - Crypto
    BCB Group
    Jan 2022 - Jun 2022 (6 months)
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    Head of Product - Crypto
    Dec 2021 - Feb 2022 (3 months)
    Led the Crypto product division, building the vision and strategy for our enterprise B2B Crypto Payments, Custody, Treasury and proprietary Blockchain Analytics platform.
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    Senior Product Manager - Crypto
    The Workshop - Inventors of Play
    Apr 2021 - Nov 2021 (8 months)
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    Chief Product Officer
    Sep 2019 - Apr 2021 (1 year 8 months)
    Co-founded an innovative blockchain start-up (part of the Mayor of London Business Growth Programme), leading product development for an immutable B2B and B2G blockchain voting platform utilising Hyperledger and Ethereum.
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    Principal
    Apr 2019 - Oct 2019 (7 months)
    Building the strategic, blockchain enabled technology plan for ASC a smart city development located adjacent to the $2.5BN Anaklia deep sea port project in the country of Georgia.
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    Chief Product Officer
    Mar 2018 - Apr 2019 (1 year 2 months)
    Co-founded and served as Chief Product Officer of a B2C mobile Fintech Crypto Wallet, API, and white-label solution, enabling Crypto/Fiat Payments and Crypto saving (yield generation).
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    Managing Director
    Technology Consultant
    Sep 2012 - Mar 2018 (5 years 7 months)
    Director of technology consultancy primarily focused on product creation, development and commercialisation across Payments, Crypto, Investment and Trading.
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    NAPT
    Pope
    Jan 2005 - Sep 2012 (7 years 9 months)
    Multi-award winning music producer, singer and songwriter with chart placing records released on Sony Music, Columbia and Universal Music.
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    King Edwards School — Edgbaston, Birmingham
    King Edwards School
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    Credly — AI For Product Management
    Jan 2024 - Dec 2024 (1 year)
    AI For Product Management
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    Smartly Institute — Micro Economics, Economics & Business
    Smartly Institute
    Jan 2018 - Dec 2018 (1 year)
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  • UCL
    UCL — Bachelor's degree, Geography
    UCL
    Jan 2000 - Dec 2003 (4 years)
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