Advisors to fintechs
Payments, Open Banking, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence
Services
Providing expertise in fintech, artificial intelligence and APIs to a range of companies from small startups to large enterprises. Services include advising, product development, and consulting. Founders are recognized thought leaders in the space and are regularly featured at conferences and in the media.
Cofounders
Brian Pearce
With 24 U.S. patents issued and more than 20 additional pending, Brian is recognized as a leading innovator in the Fintech industry. Over his 30-year career he has led a variety of business development, product management, project management, business analysis and product operations functions in startups, consulting firms and major corporations. His success is based on using emerging technologies to solve challenging business problems - he started with client/server, then Internet, then mobile, and more recently Artificial Intelligence.
Brian’s expertise encompasses consumer payments, digital experiences and applied AI. He and his teams have led large, multi-channel efforts including Mobile Remote Deposit, Apple Pay, the go-to-market efforts of Zelle, Bill Pay, Mobile Banking and the launch of an online brokerage platform. He recently oversaw the development of the AI program for a major US bank and has provided industry thought leadership on the use of practical AI in financial services.
Brian is based in San Francisco and lives in the East Bay with his wife and 3 sons. In his spare time he plays golf and loves working out at OrangeTheory Fitness.
Imran Haider
Imran is a product executive with 15+ years of experience founding, growing, and managing market-leading digital businesses. Most recently, Imran pitched, built and scaled an Open Finance platform. In 6 years, he took this business from a pitch deck and expanded it into the largest bank-based API venture globally, with 45 use cases, more volume/month than the UK open banking market combined, and $100’s of million in revenue per year. Prior to this, Imran ran the second largest consumer digital banking payments platform in the US where he managed a $150M P&L with 15M active users and $650B in payments volume/year.
Imran grew up in Rome, Italy, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two kids. He is a lifelong AC Milan fan, an advisor to multiple startups and an avid learner. Imran has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a master’s degree in Financial Engineering from Columbia University