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About Paolo Zaccardi
https://www.fabrick.com/
Paolo Zaccardi, Group Head of Open Banking Business Line at Sella Group, CEO of Fabrick SpA, the new company formed by Sella Group to manage some of the most innovative Open Banking and Fintech initiatives such as Fabrick Platform, Fintech District, Hype, Axerve, Vipera and Kubique.
Voted by Medici (former Let's Talk Payments LLC, a Global consultancy firm on Fintech Innovation and thought leader on the topic) as one of the Fintech leaders in Italy in 2018.
Fintech Entrepreneur and CEO specialised in leading and partnering with large Organizations (Banks, Payment Institutions, Corporates) to innovate their offerings and building new products and platforms in banking, payments and digital services.
Paolo Zaccardi, Around 20 years of experience in senior leadership roles as Managing Director, Marketing and Innovation Director, Chief Innovation Officer and Head of Product Development at leading service providers with expertise spanning a wide range of areas including digital banking, cross-border payments, supply chain finance, payment services, OpenBanking/PSD2 and business skills such as marketing strategy, sales and negotiation, innovation management.
Master's degree in electronics engineering, PMD in General Management at IESE Business School and executive education qualifications in marketing, strategy and innovation management achieved at top ranked business schools - MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Kellogg, INSEAD, Berkeley.
Key areas of expertise:
- OpenBanking APIs
- Fintech and Innovation ecosystems
- Global Payments
- Corporate and SMEs banking
- Cash Management & Supply Chain Finance
- Digital and mobile Banking
- Blockchain
Key innovation & change management skills:
- Disruptive Innovation Strategy
- Design Thinking & Human Centered Design
- Blue Ocean Strategy
- Executive Coaching
Mr. Paolo Zaccardi strongly believes that collaboration between fintechs and incumbents is essential for creating and developing new products and services that provide consumers with a smooth and personalized experience. Furthermore, Mr. Paolo Zaccardi maintains that such collaborations will increasingly determine an organisation’s competitiveness in the market. In this regard, the platform model (such as Fabrick’s) which facilitates collaboration and co-creation, is of paramount importance. Moreover, Mr. Paolo Zaccardi sees banking as a service and embedded finance as key approaches to unlocking the opportunities of Open Finance, especially if implemented within an open ecosystem that has a platform as its founding element.
Mr. Paolo Zaccardi champions Fabrick’s mission of making innovation easier and accelerating the time to market of the new services of Fabrick’s partners, with the end goal of addressing the emergent needs of Fabrick’s partners’ customers, the final consumer, and the end-user.