About Gerard-William
Senior Product and Business Development leader with 25+ years of experience designing, launching and scaling financial services products in SaaS, marketplace and Banking-as-a-Service environments.
I specialize in owning product vision and roadmaps for payment and financial services, translating market needs and regulatory constraints into scalable, API-based product capabilities. My background combines product strategy, go-to-market execution and hands-on delivery, with deep exposure to payments, billing, settlement, compliance and risk.
I operate at the intersection of product, engineering, legal, data and go-to-market teams, ensuring that complex financial products deliver business value, adoption and operational robustness.
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)
Experience
- Skwad.Ventures–Senior Product & Platform Advisor – Financial ServicesBANKING AND INSURANCEFebruary 2025 - Today (1 year and 4 months)Paris, FranceActing as Senior Product Lead of transition for financial and marketplace platforms.• • Framed product vision and roadmaps for payment and financial services products• • Translated market and regulatory constraints into scalable product capabilities• • Supported execution with engineering, compliance and GTM teams
- Treezor (Société Générale Group)Managing Director, Corporate Solutions & Embedded FinanceJuly 2021 - January 2025 (3 years and 6 months)Paris, FranceLeading the corporate and marketplace financial services product line within a regulated Banking as-a-Service (BaaS) platform.• • Owned product vision and roadmap for marketplace and corporate financial services• • Prioritized API-based product capabilities embedding regulatory requirements by design• • Worked closely with marketplace operators and sales teams to drive adoption and revenues• • Led cross-functional teams (product, engineering, data, compliance); €12M roadmap, €5M+ recurring income
- Worldpay (FIS Group)Business Development Director – Payment & Data SolutionsApril 2021 - June 2021 (2 months)Paris, FranceBrought in to design a product-led market expansion strategy for payment and acquiring solutions in a mature and highly competitive market.• • Created a new offering targeting payment facilitators and marketplaces• • Defined positioning and monetization for API-based services• • Scoped execution-ready SaaS components with product and engineering teams
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Education
- Master II in Engineering SciencesUniversity of Paris-Sorbonne1996Master II in Engineering Sciences