William Levy
Manager at Sia Partners
William Levy
Manager at Sia Partners
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Manager
2022 - Current
Part of the consumer banking business unit, focused on Payments projects and endeavors.
Founder - Strategy & Project Management / Fintech Business Angel and Advisory
2019 - 2022
Founded my own entity to deliver financial strategic advisory and product / program management to American / European banks, retailers, fintechs including crypto companies. BPCE (Bank): benchmark, roadmap and RFI of Crypto and Web 3.0 solutions Ledger (Crypto Unicorn): crypto card issuance program management in Europe / USA RCI bank - Renault Group (Bank / Car Manufacturer): defined and built the business case for a new Fintech division around mobility running on Banking as a Service capabilities Mousquetaires Group (Retailer): developed strategy on payments activities (acquiring, issuing, e-commerce, ATM RFP...) Skaleet (FinTech): European go-to-market strategy for a digital core banking system manager.one (Bank): implemented a B2B card issuing (corporate cards) best of breed architecture (visa principal member achievement) Spaycial (FinTech): scaled its open banking Point of Sale technology across Europe Collaborated with management and strategy consulting firms: Accenture, Galitt and Simon Kucher & Partners Business Angel activities in Fintechs: seed investing and / or board advisory Paysika, Vybe, Green-Got, Joe, Unlimitd, Seqino,
Head of Payments Strategy and Chief Product Officer of internal EMI Fintech
2015 - 2019
Banque EDEL is the affiliated bank of E. Leclerc Retail Group (largest retailer in France). Edel aims at enriching financial services for the stores by providing financial and payments solutions. - Since May 2015: Looked after around 600 M of yearly payments transactions, totalizing 40 Bn Euros in volumes across different distribution channels (POS and e-com). - Since end 2016: in charge of Products, Strategy and Marketing at Morning (team of 15 persons), an EMI licensed French entity acquired by Edel in 2016. The entity issued payment cards, gift cards, and was providing acquiring payments services on both B2C / B2B models.
Consultant
2013 - 2015
Acquired by Accenture in 2021, Exton Consulting is a financial services consulting firm Worked for the "Cards & Payments" department of Exton Consulting on Payments strategy for European banks and retailers.
Research Assistant
2012 - 2013
2 main assignments performed: -Dassault-Aviation: "More Electric Aircraft" project manager; produced recommendations to top executives in order to design an electric driven aircraft -Airbus, EADS: "Fly Your Ideas" member; built a holistic consolidated business model for a disruptive aircraft generation that integrates among other aspects the risk of premature eco-friendly technologies
General Assembly Coordinator
2010 - 2012
Main organizer of the BEST 2012 job fair held in Paris at the "Ecole militaire" (500 European students, ~15 companies, $ 100,000 fund-raised)
Engineering Intern
2011 - 2011
Education
Master’s Degree
2012 - 2013
Diplôme d'Ingénieur
2010 - 2012
classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles
2007 - 2010