Tomas Prochazka, MSc Stockholm, Sweden • +46 761 621 374 • prochaz.tom@gmail.com Professional Experience Tink Stockholm, Sweden VP Product 01/2019 - today • Built the product organisation from 0 to ~25 members, leading Product Management, Design and Analytics teams through company’s growth from 35 to 350+ employees (150+ devs split between Sweden and Poland), three acquisitions, raising $200+M, becoming the EU industry leader in the Open Banking space and becoming one of the most regarded fintechs in Europe • Member of the executive management team, responsible for the orchestration of product development and strategy that has led to establishment of 4 core products and launching in 12 new markets while working alongside key engineering and commercial stakeholders. Time spent ~⅓ on team development, ⅓ product strategy & ⅓ stakeholder mgmt • Spent the last ~6 months building up and leading brand new Payments unit with full ownership of P&L, product offering, sales and marketing responsibilities Head of Product, Enterprise 10/2017 – 12/2018 First Product Management hire at Tink, leading the developments, strategy and go-to-market definition of our newly formed SaaS branch (in an originally B2C company) • iZettle Stockholm, Sweden Product Lead Payments 01/2017 – 09/2017 • Responsible for all strategic & tactical matters of iZettle’s core product that represented ~90% of company’s $50+M revenue and in charge of setting up & leading two (online and alternative payment methods) teams that have since expanded iZettle’s payment portfolio beyond Point of Sale payments. iZettle was acquired for $2.2B in 2018 by PayPal Product Director Card Payments 09/2015 – 12/2016 Leading top talent team of 15+ cross-functional team members responsible for all technical, product, design and operational aspects of the card payment product at POS - including App development, acquiring integrations and new hardware design • Managing key internal (country and department leads) as well as external stakeholders (card brand schemes, acquiring banks, hardware vendors) • Fully responsible for development of and integration of world's first custom build contactless enabled chip&pin mobile reader • Product Owner Card Payments 09/2014 – 08/2015 Managed team of 10+ members (developers, designers, QAs) through scrum based methods • UL Transaction Security Leiden, Netherlands Mobile & Payment Consultant 01/2013-08/2014 • Advised multiple global banks on development and deployment of mobile, NFC and contactless card technologies, key projects include: • Advisor for Telecommunications Ministry, Dubai, UAE (10 months) - Set up test centre for world’s first national mobile identity & payments platform to be used by banks and other service providers onboarding the platform - Developed strategy for expansion of mobile ticketing technologies in public transport • Advisor for ABN AMRO, ING and Rabobank, The Netherlands (7 months) - Led the technical implementation and coordination of all partners (banks, OEMs, chip vendors, App developers) in a Dutch national NFC payment pilot project which provided basis for the banks’ country wide launches 1 Internships & other work assignments Advisor at Trashy Bags, Accra, Ghana Strategic Advisor for Curaçao Airport Holding, Curaçao Six-Sigma Intern at GE Aviation, Prague, Czech Republic Research Assistant at Imperial College, London, UK 10/2011-01/2012 02/2011-07/2011 06/2009-12/2009 07/2008-09/2008 Education Delft University of Technology Delft, The Netherlands MSc Degree in ‘Management of Technology’ 09/2010-09/2012 • Awarded full merit scholarship for the entire program, graduated in the top 5% of the class • Master thesis advising Bluerise, Dutch offshore engineering startup • Semester exchange at Harbin Institute of Technology, China Czech Technical University Prague, Czech Rep. BSc. Degree in ‘Mechanical Engineering’ 09/2006 – 08/2010 • Scholarship for exceptional academic results for the entire bachelor program, graduated in the top 5% of the class • Full scholarship for summer programme at University of Seoul, South Korea and two semester exchange at University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK Others • • • • Passionate photographer, nature lover, world traveller Marathoner, Dutch national floorball champion (2012/13) Attended high school in the USA (2004-2005) Languages: English (Professional proficiency), Czech (Native), German (rudimentary), Swedish (rudimentary) 2
