Payments, E-Commerce, Issuing, Acquiring, Compliance, Prepaid, Alternative Payments
Engineered Marketing, Copywriting, Web Scrapping, Growth Process, Experiments, Pirate Funnel, Growth Hacks, Automation, HTML/CSS/JS
MVP, Product-Market Fit, Ideation, Prototyping, Scaling, Activation, UI/UX
I am an experienced Fintech professional with a focus on Product Strategy and Marketing. I am an advisor, coach and mentor to startups, a member of the FinTech Steering Committee at District 3, and previously a mentor at Founders Institute.
I have presented workshops and spoken at conferences on topics ranging from e-wallets, risk & fraud monitoring, payments compliance and emerging payments technology in Canada and US. Presented to members of Department of Finance, Competition Bureau, OSFI, FINTRAC and have presented at Ivey Business School and McGill University.
“Ferhan’s advice has been exceptional to our foundation, and with his generous contribution, we have been able to make significant progress towards our goals.”
“Ferhan Patel has been an excellent mentor and advisor for my company. He takes the time to listen and give genuine feedback. He would always make time for me during the day, evening or even weekends.”
“There are very few people who can do what Ferhan does every day. His understanding of the industry is comprehensive and spans various different functions such a product, payments, fraud & compliance..."
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2020/12/23/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-ripple-and-xrp-as-coinbase-considers-its-options/?sh=443d5664d449 Ripple’s XRP, currently the fourth biggest cryptocurrency by value, according to CoinMarketCap, is fighting for its life. XRP, the digital token controlled by the San Francisco-based company Ripple, has lost half its value Read more…
Setting up your own business is a consistent and overwhelming task. Setting up a fintech organization from scratch, one intended to digitally disrupt the financial business can appear to be unimaginable but entrepreneurs like Ferhan Read more…
The DOJ believes Alexander Vinnick ran BTC-e as a front for a money laundering operation. Source: https://www.engadget.com/bitcoin-alexander-vinnick-prison-money-laundering-083053555.html Alexander Vinnick, the Russian man who founded and ran the now-defunct Bitcoin exchange service BTC-e, has been sentenced to five Read more…