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Shalu Attri

FinTech | Global Payments | eCommerce | Financial Services | American Banker's Most Influential Women in Payments, 2023 Honoree

San Francisco Bay Area

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  • Min Investment:

    $10,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $50,000.00

Work Experience

  • Director, Product Partnerships

    2024

    Galileo is a division of SoFi (Nasdaq: SOFI)

  • Board Advisor & Mentor

    2022

    Money20/20 Amplify Board Advisor & Mentor (US & Europe): A DEI initiative designed to raise visibility, cultivate connections, and empower people of color & underrepresented leaders.

2023 - 2024

  • Principal

    2023 - 2024

    Fractional Payments Executive Advisor, Revenue | Partnerships Clients include Orum; a payments API and instant bank account verification solution that optimizes money movement.

2020 - 2023

  • Director, Global Business Development, Payments

    2020 - 2023

    Influenced business and product strategy through complex first-of-a-kind global platform partnerships. Payments is a 2B+ revenue portfolio for eBay. I managed a team of business development managers focused on partnerships with Financial Institutions, Networks, Issuers, and FinTechs. Focus Areas included: - Real-time | Instant Payments - Seller Payouts, including cross-border payouts - FX Management - Loyalty | Offers - Wallet Providers - Issuer Partnerships - Networks Partnerships

2016 - 2019

  • Vice President, Citi FinTech

    2019 - 2019

    Strategic Partnerships and Digital Product at Citi FinTech (Banking-as-a-Service).

  • Vice President, US Citi Branded Cards | Citi Ventures Innovation Catalyst

    2016 - 2019

    Strategic business partner (Platform Partner | Operating Partner) to Citi Branded Cards, and Citi Ventures Investing Team for Commerce & Payments domain Drove partnership with Citi Ventures portfolio, and non-portfolio companies across Citi Cards priorities. Focus areas include: • Machine Learning • Conversational Commerce • Digital Customer Experience • Lending • Underwriting • Fraud • Authentication • AML • Digital Payments • Small-Medium Business IDEO-Citi Ventures CoLab: Corporate CoLab Fellow • Collaborative cross-industry research and exploration of emerging opportunity areas in FinTech. Design-Thinking at Citi Ventures: • Internal Design-Thinking champion at Citi. • Led Prototyping for an audience of 30 Citi Cards employees at a design-thinking workshop.

2016 - 2018

  • Corporate Fellow (Citibank)

    2016 - 2018

    Collaborative cross-industry research and exploration of emerging opportunity areas in FinTech. • Part of a 6-week Sprint exploring the future of Smart Bots, and their impact on Commerce & Payments (Oct - Dec 2016) • Part of a 1.5-week Sprint exploring blockchain help unlock financing for cash-strapped small businesses in a supply chain (January 2018)

2011 - 2014

  • Product Planner (Consumer) | Windows

    2011 - 2014

    Product Planners sat at the intersection of Product Management, Research, and Strategy at Microsoft, and drove future product investments with cross-functional teams.

2010 - 2011

  • CEO / Founder

    2010 - 2011

    GOAQUÍ was a marketplace targeting budget travelers, who valued local experiences.

2009 - 2010

  • Strategy Consultant

    2009 - 2010

    Method (Clients - Nokia, DivX) • Created a brand repositioning strategy for DivX in collaboration with brand strategists and design research leads. • Conducted market research in mobile social networking for Nokia: majority of the research was incorporated into final recommendations. Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) | Palo Alto, CA (Client – San Jose tech Museum) •Collaborated with different stakeholders; ideated, prototyped, and presented ideas for the San Jose Tech Museum’s Tech Challenge 2012 with the K-12 Lab.

  • Strategy / Business Design Intern

    2009 - 2009

    • Collaborated with MBAs, designers, and industry experts to develop a comprehensive solution to explore a new market opportunity for a Fortune 100 company within North Amercia. The pilot phase of the business concepts will be tested across North America in Fall 2009. • Developed a prototype business model to evaluate feasibility of proposed solution under multiple scenarios, and supplemented the analysis with a product solution, user messaging strategy, and sales strategy. • Contributed to all aspects of the design thinking process, including in-depth understanding of target customer segment needs and value drivers, concept development, and strategic business design.