About Abhish Saha

Prior to joining Sandstone Technology, Abhish Saha has amassed over 25 years of local and global experience within technical and product functions having worked for the likes of Optus, Vodafone, Nortel, and Commonwealth Bank of Australia. In his more recent role as Chief Product Officer at Linkly (pre-acquisition, General Manager at Premier Technologies), Abhish Saha focused on delivering in-store, online and voice payment technology solutions to Banks, Governments, and Businesses across Australia and overseas. Abhish Saha is a proven product development and business management professional experience across several industries including Consumer Electronics, Telecommunications and Financial Services (including Merchant Services, Digital Banking, Business Banking and Transactional Banking). Abhish Saha has been on both the service provider side within Banks and Telcos, and the vendor side delivering innovative technology solutions to Banks, Retailers, Government Agencies, SMEs and Telcos. Some of his career highlights include: - leading the development of a payments platform from concept to processing over 11% of all online payments in Australia - managing a white label SaaS platform used by tier 1 Banks to service over 30,000 Institutions and Businesses across Australia, Asia and MEA - winning multiple innovation awards including a Cannex Canstar - double & triple digit growth for various businesses and product portfolios under his leadership over the last 25 years His goals have always been to innovate and simplify technology to make its benefits available to everyone. Key Expertise: - Leading, enabling and empowering cross-functional teams dealing with technical complexity including Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, Software Development, Product Management, Marketing and Client Services - complete life cycle management of technology-based Products and Services (from strategy & concept to launch, maturity and sunset) - strong focus on productivity, business processes and low-client-impact change management - identifying low-budget innovation and business improvements leading to strong returns - implementing disciplines for highly regulated businesses covering card data security, risk management and information security (PCI DSS, IS0 31000 and ISO 27001) - staff training, industry leadership and public speaking (across countless international forums including Seamless Asia, Seamless Middle East, various retail associations, various Government forums, Money Show, Cards & Payments, ITU and Merchant Payment Ecosystem Forum to name a few) - subject matter expert in payments (i.e. Cards Acquiring, payment gateways, PCI DSS, Bill Payment, Omni Channel Retail, eCommerce, mCommerce and fraud management)