About
BNPL strategy can’t be “pick one provider and hope.” When you sell across borders, buy now pay later becomes a payments infrastructure problem: different countries, different regulations, different checkout habits, and a constant pressure to keep conversion high without turning your team into an integration factory.We approaching merchants and acquirers by a single, harmonized API that can connect to multiple BNPL providers while staying invisible to the shopper. With Green Banana we are building a novel pan-European BNPL ecosystem that takes Buy Now, Pay Later to the next level — international in scope, data-driven, and designed with modularity in mind. Our neutrality creates flexibility for merchants that need to change providers as requirements shift. From there we zoom out to the bigger payments trends and watching: stablecoins as a back-end innovation that could unlock new value for PSPs, banks, and merchants, plus the rise of agentic commerce where AI agents buy pr…
Experience
Ceo & Co-Founder
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CEO & Co-Founder 🌍 As the visionary behind GreenBanana, we are building a scalable technical platform for the entire BNPL ecosystem. Our mission is to make Buy Now, Pay Later seamless, efficient, and internationally scalable for merchants, providers, and platforms. We operate on a meta level – as a technical intermediary – connecting the fragmented world of BNPL providers with retailers, PSPs, and other BNPL players. With our Sales-as-a-Service approach, deep market expertise, and strong network, we help our partners unlock new markets and overcome technical barriers. Previously, I held roles at companies such as Worldpay, FIS, and Giropay, and I bring over 15 years of experience in payments, e-commerce, and retail. 📩 Let’s connect if you’re working on BNPL, Payment Innovation, Retail Tech oder Partnerships. Match connect convert !
Ambassador
The Payments Association EU · Deutschland
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The Payments Association EU is a business club of decision makers in the payments industry. Our members are the enterprises forming all the components of the payments value chain in the 27 countries of the European Union.
Unternehmensinhaber
LeoLuk Ventures ug
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Community Member
2hearts · Berlin, Deutschland
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Building tomorrow's tech society with cultural diversity: 2hearts is a community of people with immigration backgrounds from the tech scene (founders, investors, top executives) with the mission to empower great talent with immigration backgrounds to enrich Europe`s tech economy.
Head of Go 2 Market Emea
Teamlead Strategic Sales Director
Worldpay · Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Deutschland
Our clients tell us that we help them to grow their business by simplifying the complex world of payments. Everything you need to do today and achieve tomorrow we can help you with. I will listen carefully to your objectives and then propose precisely how we can win together. We can advance the ways your business pays, banks and invests. I would love to meet you soon. - Teamlead Enterprise Business Development / Strategic Sales / C-Level - Acquisition of new top EHI retailers and verticals - Negotiations at C-Level (presentation and communication) - Cooperation with service providers in the e-commerce and payment industry - Representation at e-commerce and payment trade fairs and congresses
Sales Executive | Payments Banking Solutions Fis
FIS · Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Deutschland
New Business Development | Payment & Banking Solutions PaaS | OPF | Real Time Payment | Instant Payment | Request to Pay Corebanking
Digital Payment Manager (Giropay)
paydirekt GmbH · Frankfurt, Hessen, Deutschland
New Business Development / Strategischer Vertrieb / C-Level • Akquise neuer Top EHI-Händler und Verticals • Verhandlungsgespräche auf der C-Level Ebene (Präsentation und Kommunikation) • Zusammenarbeit mit Instituten, Banken und Dienstleistern der eCommerce- sowie Payment-Branche, u.a. Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, GIZS, Payone, Computop etc. • Gemeinsame Workshop mit dem Product Development Team insb. bei der Umsetzung diverser Entwicklungsprojekte • Sicherstellung der Umsetzung neuer Features bei den Top Händlern • Ausbau und Intensivierung dieser Beziehungen im Sinne eines konsequenten Key-Account Managements • Organisation und Durchführung von kaufmännischen Workshops mit den Top Händlern • Interner und externer zentraler Ansprechpartner für alle operativen Belange sowie technisches und kaufmännisches Onboarding • Kontinuierliche Betreuung der Key-Accounts nach Aktivierung in Zusammenarbeit mit den Abteilungen Integration, Management, PR, Product und Marketing • Repräsentation auf E-…
Area Manager
Bestandskunden betreuen in Hessen, Nordrhein- Westfalen, Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz, Bayern, Neukunden Akquise,
Leitender Angestellte
Mavi · Dietzenbach
Teamleiter im Verkauf mit 2 Auszubildenden und 3 Angestellten; Warenbeschaffung sowie Einkaufs- bzw. Produktionsplanung und Preiskalkulation für gesamteuropäischen Märkt
Customer Service
Mavi · Dietzenbach
Education
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Certified Payment Professional, Zahlungsverkehr Europa u. International | Cash Managment | E-Banking | Mobile Payments | Cards
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
DeFi Talents Blockchain, DeFi Decentralized Finance
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Masterclass Blockchain Center Frankfurt, Blockchain
Hochschule Mittweida
Blockchain Autumn School 2021 BCCM, Blockchain | Crypto | DeFi
VWA Hochschule für berufsbegleitendes Studium
Betriebswirt VWA, Betriebsmanagement und -verwaltung
VWA Hochschule für berufsbegleitendes Studium
Marketing - Vertriebs- Ökonom VWA, Business, Management, Marketing und verbundene unterstützende Dienste
Wanit Fulgurit
Bürokaufmann
Rudolf-Koch-Gymnasium
ABITUR
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