Sebastian Sutherland CEO

Co-Founder

Passport

Sep 2022 - Current (3 years 8 months)

VP Product Partnerships

Synapse

Oct 2018 - Sep 2022 (4 years)

I have the privilege to work alongside exceptionally talented colleagues, partners and suppliers to launch new products for Synapse in the US and key markets worldwide. My team is responsible for scouting for new partnerships to bring our roadmap to life and executing the implementation with various cross functionality teams. We continue and build on our company mission to allow any developer, wherever they are in the world, to launch compliant financial services that can change the world for good.

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Fintech Product Consultant

Consultant / Self-Employed

Jan 2017 - Sep 2018 (1 year 9 months)

Providing product development consulting for a range of companies across the financial services industry, including: Product Roadmap Development - prioritising digital product launch features to respond to customer feedback gathered through surveys, interviews, ideation sessions and converting insights into a product roadmap. Business Model Validation - completed the financial analysis for implementing a new banking product stack covering aspects such as market research, competitive analysis, market launch strategies, financial forecasting and unit economic calculations to validate the proposed service launches. Supplier Scouting and Partner Selection - scouting innovative fintech partners across the US and Europe to deliver innovativ

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Founder

Lenio App

Apr 2015 - Dec 2016 (1 year 9 months)

Changing the way donors can search for, engage with and donate to charities.

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Head of Innovation

Apptivation

Jul 2013 - Feb 2015 (1 year 8 months)

Driving Innovation at Apptivation Labs - the innovation arm of Apptivation, the UK's leading Innovation Agency. Responsible for delivering bespoke mobile and web based solutions to solve product challenges with a multi-disciplinary team covering Design, Development and Quality Assurance. Taking a Client Brief, or through internal Research and Development, Apptivation leads cutting-edge, innovative development covering sectors such as FinTech, Energy, Consumer Propositions and B2B Proposals.

Business Development Manager (Contractor)

Deutsche Telekom

Jul 2012 - May 2013 (11 months)

While at Deutsche Telekom I was responsible for identifying innovative start-ups throughout Europe for partnering opportunities and potential investment. Scouting activities covered both enterprise and consumer sectors to negotiate strategic partnerships with Deutsche Telekom internal departments. I also supported our presence in Berlin by running innovation workshops, hackathons and building strategic partnerships with leading entrepreneurial start-ups such as General Assembly and Free Formers.

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Associate Intern

Atómico AD

Jan 2012 - Jul 2012 (7 months)

As an intern at Atomico, I supported the Investment team to source potential investments and carry out due diligence on mature leads. I covered a variety of sectors and geographies in order to identify opportunities and worked with the Investment Manager to narrow down a pipeline of leads.

MBA Intern, Platform Partnerships

Facebook

Jun 2011 - Aug 2011 (3 months)

During my summer internship at Facebook I carried out a variety of projects covering: * Analysis of the Platform performance * Product launch research * Engagements with entrepreneurs * Advising 'How to Make Big Companies Social and How to Make Social Companies Big' * Systems to identify emerging fast growth developers

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Senior Engineer

T-Mobile UK

Mar 2009 - Aug 2010 (1 year 6 months)

As Senior Engineer I was responsible for managing the technical integration of the Next Generation SMS system to T-Mobile operations throughout Europe.

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Systems Integration Engineer

T-Mobile UK

Sep 2007 - Mar 2009 (1 year 7 months)

As a Systems Integration Engineer I oversaw the delivery of Value Added Services into the T-Mobile UK Network. This covered a variety of projects including: * Mobile Instant Messaging * 3rd Party Gateway * Mobile Jukebox * Location Based Services

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Graduate Integration Engineer

T-Mobile UK

Sep 2005 - Sep 2007 (2 years 1 month)

During the Graduate programme at T-Mobile I was responsible for testing, programming and integrating various specific projects within the UK network. Working with cross-functional teams, I was responsible to ensure the highest standards of software quality were delivered to ensure maximum operational performance and uptime.

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