Shalu Attri
Director, Product Partnerships at Galileo Financial Technologies
Shalu Attri
Director, Product Partnerships at Galileo Financial Technologies
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Director, Product Partnerships
2024 - Current
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.
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.
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
EBay Ventures invests in disruptive companies that are revolutionizing the commerce landscape.
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.
Citigroup is a financial services holding company that provides various financial products and services.
Raised $12,950,000,000.00 from ValueAct Capital and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
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)
IDEO CoLab Ventures is invest in early-stage distributed web startups and co-create with them to ship new products and protocols.
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.
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
CEO / Founder
2010 - 2011
GOAQUÍ was a marketplace targeting budget travelers, who valued local experiences.
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.